I Am Not a Tourist by Daisy J Hung
An important new voice DAVID YIP, actor A vital resource PEYVAND SADEGHIAN, actor and writer Important and poignantA brilliant read HELEN TSE MBE, author of Sweet Mandarin‘An important and poignant insight into the British Chinese community, often coined the silent minorityThank you for giving us a voice and a seat at the table. A brilliant read’ HELEN TSE MBE, author of Sweet Mandarin
‘The compelling complexities of the British Chinese experience – an ethnic diaspora group so often reduced to twee exotic irrelevance (as much by ourselves as anyone else) – are vividly and thoroughly explored in Daisy J. Hung’s seminal game-changer of a book. Lovingly researched, passionately examined and shot through with very real personal reflections’ DANIEL YORK LOH, actor, writer and director
‘This book combines deeply personal narratives with detailed policy analysis to examine what it truly means to navigate British society as an East and Southeast Asian person. A vital resource that challenges oversimplified narratives about migration, nationality and belonging in contemporary Britain’ PEYVAND SADEGHIAN, actor and writer
‘Daisy J. Hung has the great gift as a writer to not only listen but to be able to weave into her narrative the core and intent of what she has heard, with genuine honesty and truth. An important new voice in our East and Southeast Asian community in Britain’ DAVID YIP, actor
‘To have one’s unique experience included in a collection like this makes the diaspora experience feel like a collective journey – that for all our individuality we are a rich community of contributors to British life’ CHIPO CHUNG, actor and activist
‘In these troubling times, identity is of paramount importance. Growing up, I lacked any real nuanced reflections of people like me, of British and East Asian heritage. This book is a much-needed work’ LUCY SHEEN, actor, writer and filmmaker
'A personal yet pertinent document redressing what the author incisively calls the ‘active forgetting’ of Chinese people in Britain. Intelligent, heartfelt, impressively accessible.’ VERA CHOK, actor and writer
Daisy J. Hung is a diversity practitioner, writer, and artist, advocating for social justice across personal and professional spheres. She is the Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division at the University of Oxford.
Daisy has a unique, international perspective on race, identity, and belonging, informed by a 20-year career across legal, non-profit and education sectors working to support marginalised communities. As a person of Chinese descent, born in Canada with family from Hong Kong, raised in the US, and now settled in the UK, her sense of identity has shifted among many different contexts.
Daisy was longlisted for the Penguin Random House WriteNow 2020 competition, and was selected for the inaugural HarperCollins Author Academy programme in 2021 and The Greene Door Project’s mentoring scheme in November 2021.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780008603243 |
| ISBN 10 | 0008603243 |
| Title | I Am Not a Tourist |
| Author | Daisy J Hung |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2025-03-13 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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