Here’s a video of me at the China In Britain series of events at Westminster University in London this year. Charles Shaar Murray played guitar and I sang Anna May Wong Must Die!, Yellowface and The Camellia and the Poppy (from The Steampunk Opium Wars). Organised by Dr Anne Witchard and Dr Diana Yeh. Recorded […]
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Yellowface. The monster that refuses to die in the final reel. It’s back and this time it’s still personal. As well as political. There’s been another ruck about the use of yellowface casting in theatre, where Asian characters are played by white actors. This time, it’s in the US where La Jolla Playhouse has produced
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Yellowface. The monster that refuses to die in the final reel. It’s back and this time it’s still personal. As well as political. There’s been another ruck about the use of yellowface casting in theatre, where Asian characters are played by white actors. This time, it’s in the US where La Jolla Playhouse has produced
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What have I and the Mandarin, big bad in the upcoming Iron Man 3, got in common? Both of us have Chinese fathers and English mothers. Plus we both look like the giant Sphinx mounted over the Morlocks’ lair in The Time Machine … at least first thing in the morning. Does that make me
Oh, I am so suggestible. I have just finished my first bacon roll in years (actually, a bagel — howzat for a fusion-cuisine atrocity?) as a direct result of watching the seventh and latest episode of CBBC’s children’s show, Spirit Warriors. The one that begins with our young heroes happening upon a dream setting of
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It’s been unbelievably sunny and warm down here in Kernow for the St Ives Arts Festival while London shakes itself out like a drowned rat aprés le deluge. Here are a couple of videos from the lunchtime sessions in Norway Square. I’m trying out Yellowface, one of the raps from Anna May Wong Must Die!,
