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CULTURE :
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ASIANS :
CHINESE:
Charlie Chan, Reimagined:
The Politically Incorrect Chinese Detective Gets His Legacy Corrected.
Charlie Chan, Reimagined:
The Politically Incorrect Chinese Detective Gets His Legacy Corrected.
Newsweek
<http://www.newsweek.com/2010/09/02/
the-resurrection-of-charlie-chan.html>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/256k4b6>
Who under the age of 50 remembers Charlie Chan? Like his more
bloodcurdling kinsman, Dr. Fu Manchu, and like Stepin Fetchit, Amos and
Andy, and many other racial stereotypes who once populated American novels
and movies, he has been politically corrected out of the cultural
landscape. Its as though they never existed, like all those vanished
commissars erased from photographs in the Stalin era. Charlie Chan was one
of the first to go, because he labored under a double onus: he was created
by a white mystery writer, Earl Derr Biggers, and he was most famously
played in films by Warner Oland, an actor who was not only white but born
in Sweden. It was inevitable that Asian-American rights groups would
campaign zealously to get Charlie off the shelves and out of the
late-night TV movie slot.
So it comes as at least a mild surprise to encounter Yunte Huangs
excellent and very sympathetic treatment of the fictional detective in
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His
Rendezvous With American History. A native of China and now a resident of
the United States, Huang, though not without some reservations, is fond of
Charlie. He points out that, unlike Fu Manchu, Charlie in no way embodied
Western fears and suspicions of the Asian world. He may have been a little
inscrutable, but more important, he was smart, funny, a good father, an
even better detective and, most important, he was the hero of the tales in
which he appeared. This was not just a matter of Americans being
indulgent. In the heyday of the Charlie Chan films, from the early 30s to
the late 40s, he was a huge hit in China. Even Warner Oland, when he
toured China, drew clamorous crowds.
Racial Stereotypes in Pop Culture
<http://www.newsweek.com/2010/09/02/
pop-culture-s-worst-racial-stereotypes.html>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/2d8e5by>
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