my china 2009

Through the experience of being bi-racial, raised by an English mother and a Chinese father, my china explores the subtle ambiguities of multi-cultural identity.

When I was born in 1955, being Anglo- Chinese was still considerably uncommon. The influences of having a Chinese father and an English mother were subtle, woven into the details of our daily life; the difference of my father’s expression whilst bending over a plate of potatoes with a knife and fork, to that of emptying a bowl of rice with his chopsticks, was clearly worlds apart… read more