Thu, 06 Feb
|The Scarlett Letters Bookshop
Chinese and Any Other Asian: Book Launch
Join local author Anna Sulan Masing for the launch of her debut book!
Time & Location
06 Feb 2025, 18:30 – 20:00
The Scarlett Letters Bookshop, 140 Cambridge Heath Rd, Bethnal Green, London E1 5QJ, UK
About the event
'Chinese’ or ‘Any Other Asian'. The boxes that people of vastly varied East and South East Asian heritage have to tick when declaring their ethnicity on many forms in the UK. This represents a shameful sweeping together of a diverse heritage and experience.
East and South East Asian people have lived and worked in the UK for centuries, fought for the British Army in both world wars, have influenced British culture through food, writing, music and art in a multitude of ways. And yet this influence is often overlooked, and even ignored.
Doors will open at 6:30pm for a 7pm start.
There will be a reading from the book, followed by a conversation between author Anna Sulan Masing and the host, writer and journalist Apoorva Sripathi. This will be followed by a Q&A with the audience and a book signing!
About the author
Dr Anna Sulan Masing is an academic, poet and journalist. She co-founded SOURCED, a public research platform that explores our global food and drink systems; and is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Cheese magazine. Anna Sulan’s 10-part narrative podcast Taste of Place, by Whetstone Radio Collective, explores colonialism and nostalgia through the history of pepper.
About the host
Apoorva Sripathi is a writer, editor, and poet from Chennai interested in the intersections of food and culture as well as memory, history and politics that forms the crux of her newsletter shelf offering. She is also the founder of the new literary magazine chlorophyll and the co-founder of the independent magazine CHEESE.