Book Launch with Daisy J. Hung, I Am Not a Tourist

Join us for a special event with Daisy J. Hung as she launches her insightful new book, I Am Not a Tourist: Conversations on Being British Chinese.

From politics to popular culture, British Chinese experiences have had little visibility, remaining largely unseen and rarely discussed. I Am Not a Tourist is a fierce and moving exploration of what it means to be British Chinese today, and a rallying cry against longstanding East and Southeast Asian racism that increased exponentially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on personal stories, extensive interviews and research, the book excavates the intricacies of identity, reveals forgotten histories, and explores the nuances of representation in a society that doesn’t always ‘see’ you.

Biography:

Daisy J. Hung is a diversity practitioner, author 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 career of over two decades 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.