'American Born Chinese' and the Limits of Cultural Representation

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The more the protagonist of AmericanBornChinese disavows his Chinese-ness, the more he reinforces and reproduces racist stereotypes, reports josephineklee in her personal and philosophical review of the upcoming DisneyPlus series: TV Immigration

Before the May premiere of his American Born Chinese TV series on Disney+, and following Oscar wins for the movie and actors in Everything Everywhere All At Once, the TV show’s executive producer Kelvin Yu celebrated the strides Asian Americans have made in the film industry at the South by Southwest Festival. I watched as the mostly Asian audience in Austin applauded Yu, claiming this victory, and more to come, as their own.

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