BCSN and CNIW Online Reading Event on Chinese Food Culture in Britain

Wednesday 15th July 2026 – 4pm – 5pm

Join us for a reading and Q&A on Chinese food culture in Britain with Jenny Lau, Anna Sulan Masing and Daisy J. Hung, chaired by Dr. Lucienne Loh from the University of Liverpool and Director of the British Chinese Studies Network.

Speaker bios:

Jenny Lau is the author of An A-Z of Chinese Food (Recipes Not Included), an exploration of food, language, identity and the Chinese diaspora, featured in Observer Food Monthly, The Sunday Times, AnOther and iPaper. She is the founder of Celestial Peach, a multidisciplinary platform established in 2018 to tell and connect stories of the Chinese diaspora through food, writing and community-led work. Through her events, writing and activism, Jenny has been featured by Gastro Obscura, It’s Nice That and Monocle. She has been listed three times as one of Code Hospitality’s 100 Most Influential Women in Hospitality.

Anna Sulan Masing is a big fan of a dry gin martini, with a twist. And is also an author, poet and academic who writes about food, drink, identity and colonialism. She is also the brand strategy director at Mr Lyan Studio. 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 Her debut book, Chinese And Any Other Asian was published in February 2025.

Daisy J. Hung is a diversity practitioner, author of I am Not a Tourist: Conversations on Being British Chinese and an embroidery artist. She is the Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division at the University of Oxford. Daisy has an international perspective on race and identity, informed by a career spanning legal, non-profit and education sectors. 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.

External webpages: If you are interested in any future events by the Centre of New and International Writing, have a look at their website here: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/new-and-international-writing/. If you would like to know more about the British Chinese Studies Network or would like to keep up to date with future events, have a look at their website here: https://university.open.ac.uk/arts/research/postcolonial/british-chinese-studies-network.