While the term ‘Eurasian’ was first seen in a Hong Kong census in 1897, claiming the term as your identity was problematic and often used as a derogatory term relating to possible illegitimacy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

This series Eurasian in Hong Kong explores this deep history and shifting experiences of Eurasian identities through performance and the body. Markers of ‘old Hong Kong’ sit within the photographs alongside colonial ghosts and cosmopolitanism, while contemporary cross-cultural trade is entwined with traditional Chinese customs. Using my body – a foreign female Eurasian Australian – I too sit between and in amongst the photographs – a part and apart from it all.