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Far East Deep South is a 2020 American documentary film about a Chinese American family's journey to search for their family roots. Instead of leading them to the Far East to a remote village in China, it took them to the deep south into the small town of Cleveland in the Mississippi Delta.
This adaptation tells the story of a Chinese woman emigrating to the U.S. and her subsequent arranged marriage. This movie featured the first majority Asian cast in Hollywood cinema, setting a precedent for the following The Joy Luck Club and Crazy Rich Asians to have a majority Asian casting. It became the first major Hollywood feature film to ...
Films created by members of the Chinese American community, as well as American films starring a majority Chinese origin cast and Chinese films set in America. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Asian Americans is a five-hour PBS documentary film series made by ITVS, WETA, and the Center for Asian American Media. [1] [2] [3] The series focus on the history of Asian and Asian American people in the United States and first aired on May 11, 2020.
In the 19th century, Sino–U.S. maritime trade began the history of Chinese Americans. At first only a handful of Chinese came, mainly as merchants, former sailors, to America. The first Chinese people of this wave arrived in the United States around 1815. Subsequent immigrants that came from the 1820s up to the late 1840s were mainly men.
By World War II, the Chinese in America who returned to China were shocked by the severe plight of residents there. At the same time, the people in China found those from America to be peculiar. [22] Since China and the United States were allies against the Japanese during World War II, Chinese Americans fared better.
In an 1885 expulsion, the city of Eureka, Calif., put its Chinese residents on two ships and kept them out for seven decades. Now, the Eureka Chinatown Project tells the story.
Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films is a 2007 American documentary film directed by Academy Award-nominated director Arthur Dong.. From early films like the 1900s Beheading the Chinese Prisoner to Ang Lee's triumphant Brokeback Mountain in 2005, Dong uses clips of more than 100 films and interviews of prominent Chinese Americans to create a thorough overview on the ...