Diana Yeh

In an article from 2021, Yeh describes the emergence of East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) identities in Britain as part of a wider political, anti-racist movement.

In February 2020, in the face of increasing overt racism against East and Southeast Asian people fuelled by international Sinophobia and racist rhetoric from political leaders such as Donald Trump, Yeh co-organised a nationwide UK campaign #IWillEatWithYou to help fight racist attitudes which were effecting Chinese businesses, particularly restaurants and takeaways. The campaign called on the public to show support and solidarity with East and Southeast Asian business owners by ordering food from their outlets. She is one of the key activists behind the #endthevirusofracism campaign that began in May 2020, and which formed into a London-based non-profit organisation focused on addressing racism against East and Southeast Asian people in the United Kingdom. The group formed after Britain's East and Southeast Asian communities saw a 300-percent increase in racist abuse and hate crime following the outbreak of Covid 19.

In September 2020, Yeh was also one of many key activists behind the #BAMEover campaign by IncArts, which called on the end of the use of BAME (Black, Asian, or other Minority Ethnic), as official terminology to describe people who were non-white.

Regarded as a leading expert on British Chinese Arts she has been credited for conducting original fieldwork on identity politics of British Chinese and Chinese migrant contemporary artists across art forms. Since 2019, along with film-maker Rosa Fong, she has been involved with BEAST: British East Asians on Screen and in Television, which confronts racial inequalities in the film and cultural industries. This work resulted in a series of new short films produced by ITV and the British Film Institute, inspired by research interviews that Yeh had previously conducted on racial inequality in the film and television industries. Her work has also featured in cultural venues such as the National Portrait Gallery and Tate Britain.

Dr Diana Yeh (simplified Chinese: 叶树芳; traditional Chinese: 葉樹芳; pinyin: Ye Shufang; born 1975) is a British Chinese sociologist, writer, curator, arts worker, and a prominent social and political activist in the United Kingdom. She is regarded as a leading expert on the history of British Chinese artists, and on racism and anti-racism, particularly in relation to Chinese diasporas. Yeh is a regular commentator on these issues, appearing frequently in interviews for international's news outlets.