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  2. Portrayal of East Asians in American film and theater

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    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 ...

  3. The Chinese Exclusion Act (film) - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese Exclusion Act is a 2017 documentary film about the United States Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.Produced by PBS as a "special presentation" for the American Experience documentary program, it explores how the Act's 61-year-long prohibition of Chinese immigrants to the United States had an effect on Chinese communities already living in the country.

  4. Asian Americans (film series) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Blood Alley - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese Communist soldiers who search the village are armed with Model 1891 Mosin–Nagant rifles (probably ex-U.S. Rifle, 7.62 mm, Model of 1916 rifles) rather than the more appropriate Model 91/30s the Communists would have carried, having been exported to Mao's army during the Chinese Civil War. The determination as to model can be made ...

  6. Category:Films about Chinese Americans - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Far East Deep South - Wikipedia

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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.

  8. The Search for General Tso - Wikipedia

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    The film then traces Tso's real-life history in the Qing Dynasty as well as the history of Chinese immigration to the United States. [1] Interviewed are a number of notable figures in Chinese-American cuisine , such as Cecilia Chiang of the Mandarin, a world record-holder for restaurant menus [ 5 ] and Chef Peng Chang-kuei , who claims to have ...

  9. History of Chinese Americans - Wikipedia

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    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.