Drawing on the modernist literary tradition of erasure poetry, this work explores how archival narratives marginalise and render communities “undesirable.”

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The series engages directly with a 1910 London magazine article, one of the earliest representation of the Liverpool Chinese community in popular media.

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Demeaning phrases and passages were erased, and the remaining words re-assemble into a counter narrative that gestures towards the deportations in the 1940s.