“My name is Lee, but I am Chinese. So if you don’t want a Chinese tenant, tell me so, and I don’t have to make the journey to look at the flat.” Lee is quite a common English surname and I wanted to avoid from the outset any unnecessary misunderstanding. True enough, there were landlords who advised me politely not to make the trip. That was British society at the time – still predominantly white and in many ways discriminatory towards non-whites.
