"China Doll" or "Dragon Lady"?

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"China Doll" or "Dragon Lady"?

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Joey LeeWilfrid Laurier
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The do-or-die interracial relationship trope is repeated continuously throughout mainstream film and theatre.

One undying representation of East Asian women in Western media and culture is the dainty China Doll or the diminutive Butterfly. This docile archetype infantilizes and hypersexualizes the diverse communities of people of Asian descent, suggesting a demand for White domination. After the Opium Wars opened trade channels to East Asia, particularlyin China and Japan(Holcombe 2017, 230), Western colonialists engaged in Orientalism by mythologizing the East based on fantasies of the Other. As their first encounters with Japanese women were with those trapped by military sex work(Wood 2009, 238), their understanding of Asia and EastA sian women were of sex and service.

Wong’s career as a Chinese Butterfly in film is characterized by her portrayal of “slave girls, prostitutes, temptresses, and doomed lovers” (Wang2013, 78), repeated images of subordinance that built the foundation for the way Western culture would come to view and understand East Asian women as dependent and innately servile. Wong stated“after my death, my tombstone should engrave the words 'she died a thousand deaths'”(Wang 2013, 78), referencing her life on screen as representing the stereotypical Asian woman who is repeatedly killed off due to failed interracial romances. Liu(2000)explains that these characters “conveniently elect” suicide to avoid challenging the happiness and success of their White lovers

The women presented are scantily dressed in outfits that conceal little more than lingerie would. These China Dolls are costumed to highlight their sexual features and suggest that they would be easily undressed andaccessible. The way the East Asian women behave is also hypersexual; they try to catch the male and audience attention through suggestive poses and winks, writhing in their seats, and pouting slightly when they are not chosen, as if they are jealous children.

The opposite representation of East Asian women in popular media is that of the aggressive, sensualDragon Lady, who is posed first as a challenge to Western power, but quickly brought to submission to ensure White dominance. This characterization is of an inhuman robot thatis unfeeling, savage, sexual, and absolutely self-serving. Wang(2013)describes the birth of the Dragon Lady in Daughter of the Dragonas the depiction of a “scheming, murderous, other-worldly beautywho killed coldly and mercilessly”(75) for her own will.

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great film, thanks for this

i still enjoy it, in spite of pc nutters

i think all nationalities of women were portrayed like this in that time, tbh, maybe asians a bit moreso, admittedly
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Re: "China Doll" or "Dragon Lady"?

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Truth is every single continent has these prostitutes :
Russia, Europe, USA (mos def), Middle-East, Africa, every country almost.
White superiority is bs. How come there is not more mixed heritage kids then than natives?
Yes there is true, but more domestic definitely.
And "HiSo" circles where nothing is nothing, like way some are almost invicible to public.
Well. Some of them are also lil bit ho'es true.
Point is : It is not only Asian's who do that shit.
Also read : Mk-Ultra betakitten33 whorification programming. That is global issue.
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Love that movie!

Funny about all the PC ramblings. I see the white man rejecting the West, the white woman, etc. And Suzie is no doormat. She plays men like a fiddle.
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