ASIAN AMERICANS IN MEDIA Week 3: The ‘Good’ Chinese — The Good Earth.

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ASIAN AMERICANS IN MEDIA Week 3: The ‘Good’ Chinese — The Good Earth

Key Terms: the Hollywood Chinese Racial discrimination in Hollywood Pre-WWII representational politics

The Good Earth (1938) Dir. Sidney Franklin Starring Paul Muni, Louise Rainer, Keye Luke, Tilly Losch, & Philip Ahn

Anna May Wong lost the role of O-Lan to Luise Rainer, who won an Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Actress in 1938 for her portrayal of O-Lan.

Based on a novel of the same title by Pearl S Buck, published in The Good Earth was the best-selling fiction book in the U.S. in 1931 and 1932, and won the Pulitzer Prize in In 1938, Buck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces.”

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu ( 賽珍珠 ) was born in the U.S. and raised in China, where her parents were missionaries. She was raised in a bilingual – English/Chinese - environment

She married John Lossing Buck in 1917 and they both taught in the University of Nanking from In 1934, she left China and returned to the U.S. She was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. In her speech to the Academy, she explained, ”I am an American by birth and by ancestry,” but “my earliest knowledge of story, of how to tell and write stories, came to me in China.”

Asian Americas in 1930s Hollywood

The Hollywood Chinese Charles Leong, a Chinese American extra in The Good Earth (We read from his first-hand account this week.) “All Chinese look alike” - the Los Angeles Chinese American community that gathered around the production of a series of film productions about China in the late 1930s. Young Chinese Americans having to learn to “play Chinese”.

A Chinese village re-constructed in Chatsworth, CA. Tom Gubbins, the Irishman who controls the Chinese actors/prop market. The relationship between White actors (who got all the main parts, playing in “yellowface”) and Chinese American extras Other Asian American actors from this period including Philip Ahn (Chinese revolutionary officer) and his brother Philson

Ahn (Chinese famer talking about the locusts), Keye Luke (elder son), Ronald Lui (second son), Benson Fong, Luke Chan and others. They were, for the most part, un-credited in their film roles from this period.

“I was barefooted and hoeing a thin row of rice shoots. I felt the warmth of the soil. I was in China. And the back of me, a camera followed my every action.” (Charles Leong) “the Hollywood Chinese is a paradox, an oriental mosaic in the cinematic pattern created through no effort of its own, and yet a most vital part of the whole design; that in this land of movies and madness, cuties and quixotism, your chop-suey waiter of today may perform tomorrow on the screen

as your favorite warlord; that an Irishman controls the Chinese actor’s market; that the only Chinese temple I ran across in Hollywood was Shirley Temple, when she spoke Mandarin in the picture Stowaway (1936); that where else and how else would I have a chance to play billiards with Gary Cooper?” (Charles Leong)

“a minor footnote to that humongously diverse cast of "Chinese peasants," la Hepburn was trailing her 50-thou, reported, mink through the dust and mud of the Calabasas outdoor sets. For me, it was a 17-week lark, at 175 a week, to bear witness to Hollywood patronizations of celestial proportions… And not a hell of a lot has changed, as witness the current teleblurb featuring "Chinese" emigres who "bow" like "Japanese." They still can't tell us apart, nor do they seem to care.” (Frank Eng, who was in Dragonseed, 1944, also based on a Pearl Buck novel)

Discussion Questions:

How does the representation of the Chinese differ between this and the previous 2 films we watched in class?

Discussion Questions: How does the representation of the Chinese differ between this and the previous 2 films we watched in class? Can we speculate on some of the reasons for this change in the representation? (artistic, cultural, social, political)?

Discussion Questions: How does the representation of the Chinese differ between this and the previous 2 films we watched in class? Can we speculate on some of the reasons for this change in the representation? (artistic, cultural, social, political)? What do you think Charles Leong meant when he wrote: “the Hollywood Chinese is a paradox”?

Describe the filmic language.

Describe the filmic language. And consider this language in relationship to its representational politics (gender, race, class, etc.)