Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously (1984)

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Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously (1984)

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Linda Hunt’s yellow-face performance of a Chinese-Australian photographer working in Jakarta not only won her an Academy Award, but was also included in an Academy Award 2018 montage showing past Best Supporting Actress winners. Hollywood has a long history of yellow-face. In 1937, MGM refused to cast Chinese-American Anna May Wong as O-Lan in The Good Earth, opting for Luise Rainer won Best Actress for her performance.

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“Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously (1984),” American Orientalism: How Slurs Shaped Representation, accessed May 3, 2024, https://sssilva.omeka.net/items/show/5.