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Some exciting news. In being succesful with my proposal to become a member of the UK-China Film Collab I have been given the title Historian & Documentary Producer. Here I will share my project proposal, however in short I aim to produce a short docu-series entitled Hybridised Plates. The full proposal is below: This proposed…
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This last week, the Dragon House Chinese Takeaway in York was defaced with racist graffiti. Crude St George’s flags were painted across the shopfront, the word “Chinese” was scratched out, “Cat N Dog” was sprayed onto the window, and on the side of the building, vandals scrawled the words “Go Home.” On a street lined with shops, only the…
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Over the few last months, in the context of diasporic food in Britain, I have written the words ‘authentic’ and ‘authenticity’ many times. Within this process, I have begun to ask myself a series of questions: What is authentic food? Is our perception of authenticity linked to our understanding of a dish’s origin, its assigned…
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During my final year studying History with Mandarin (BA) at De Montfort University, we were tasked to complete a 10 minute podcast on one of the themes we explored during that specific module. During this module there was one stand out book on the reading list. This book was Professor Mary Fulbrook’s Bystander Society. Fulbrook…
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