Year of the Dragon (1985) directed by Michael Cimino. The main character, Stanley White, is a white police chief from New York who is racist towards Chinese. His purpose to get rid of any violence in New York Chinatown. He makes friends with Tracy Tzu a Asian American female news anchor to get his Chinese violence story onto the news. Although the police officer plays a conceited and inconsiderate, Tracey dislikes the person he is due to all the rude remarks about her ethnicity and eventually refuse to air his story in the news. He eventually goes to her house later on and pressures to having sexual intercourse but finally she caves in to his proposal despite many rejections in the past. This is a perfect example of portraying Tracy as a China doll for letting her sleep with man who disrespected her at first and had previous arguments. This movie not only portrays Asian American females to be passive and indecisive and characterizes them to be China dolls, but it also stresses that Asian American females want to engage in having sexual intercourse with white men, even after saying no.
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"Negative Stereotyping of Asian Americans" modelminority. Joomla!. 2 March. 2013
I totally agree with this entry. There are a lot of films which have same issue to this movie. Asian American woman usually portrays like a China Doll. I think it is a kind of discrimination to Asian American Woman.
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