"There
are china dolls and China dolls." According to Annie Nakao there is a
traditional version that is not so know which consist of being a
delicate porcelain doll treasured as a passed down heirloom. Then the
other version is applied to young asian women to be exoctic and obident.
The only reason that a porcelian doll can be associated to Asian women that is obident is because of her porcelian-white skin the represents a doll.
According
to the China doll stereotype, Asian women are meant to be tossed around and
played with like dolls. Their value consist on their appearances and how they
present themselves to men. China dolls refers to every Asian ethnicity, which
makes the stereotype even more offensive to oneself. This stereotype could
have originated when Chinese were the first among the groups from Asia to migrate to America in the 19th and 20th century, around this time period
Chinese women had difficulty finding employment and got into the sex trade.
"Numbers
of imported Chinese women were sold as prostitutes, wives, or concubines to the
much larger numbers of Chinese men living and working in San Francisco. Many of
these prostitutes were sold into the sex trade by their impoverished families
and suffered abuse at the hands of their owners as well as their clients."
-Jingwoan Chang
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| This photo was taken from "My Little China Doll, Searching for ourselves at the toy store." Hyphen Magazine |
Work Cited
Nakao, Annie. "Sensitivity training around 'China doll'". SFGate. Web. 4 July 2002 <http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Sensitivity-training-around-China-doll-2825152.php>
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