#Movies #ActionHeroes . . .

We male #AAPI #ChineseAmericans have few positive male movie icons or heroes.

For us #Boomer Chinese-Americana, this was #BruceLee, who died far too young. Not only did he have a white wife, he was a "bad dude" & dispelled the negative sexual stereotypes of Asian men that still exist.

While I don't think he's the greatest Asian hero of all time, as the following article suggests, #ChowYunFat was a successor to Bruce & his partnership with John Woo is akin to that between Mifune & Kurosawa but while significant within the genre of Asian action films, far less groundbreaking than the Japanese collaboration was.

In any event, if you never seen #HardBoiled, #ABetterTomorrow & #Killer, you should make the effort to do so, because they are ground breaking movies in the modern #HongKongMovie genre & are essential to a full understanding of Asian action films.

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260402-films-greatest-action-hero-is-not-who-you-think

Making the Dancing Lions for Lunar New York Celebrations

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/arts/design/lion-dancing-chinese-lunar-new-years-san-francisco.html

Men standing or walking down a sidewalk, Chinatown, San Francisco between 1896 and 1906.
Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942
1 transparency : safety ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

#Chinatown #SanFrancisco #Arnold #ArnoldGenthe #American #UnitedStates #ChineseAmericans #City&townlife #photography

https://www.loc.gov/item/2018704973/

The Register: FBI flags scam targeting Chinese speakers with bogus surgery bills. “Chinese speakers in the US are being targeted as part of an aggressive health insurance scam campaign, the FBI warns. In telephone calls carried out in Chinese, the scammers reel in targets under the pretense that they have unpaid bills related to recent surgical procedures.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/17/the-register-fbi-flags-scam-targeting-chinese-speakers-with-bogus-surgery-bills/

In Chinese American Families, There’s a Generational Split on Mamdani

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/business/zohran-mamdani-chinese.html

Victoria Namkung: tRump’s #Ice raids recall a painful past for these Americans: ‘I see myself in those children’. Survivors of previous eras of xenophobia say the harms done have lasted generations – and what’s happening now threatens to do the same.

#trump #immigration #ChineseExclusionAct #ChineseAmericans #JapaneseInternment #WWII #JapaneseAmericans #UFW #MexicanAmericans #labor #resistance
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/13/ice-raids-immigrants-generations

Ko Lyn Cheang: This 103-year-old S.F. Chinatown native helped the Allies win #WWII. Now, he’s being honored

#veterans #ChineseAmericans #California #SanFrancisco #ChinaTown
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/chinese-american-world-war-21039690.php

@andybrwn #ChineseCamp #Chinese #ChineseAmericans #AAPI

Chinese Camp, CA was a town (among many others in CA) created out of racism but any remnant of the Chinese who were FORCED to live there is long gone.

Once went there looking for any evidence of the Chinese. Didn't find any.

According to Wiki, there were NO Chinese living in Chinese Camp in 2010.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Camp,_California

So, the loss of property due to the fire there has nothing to do w/the Chinese anymore. 🤷‍♂️

https://bbc.com/news/articles/cgjyqnndvwjo

Ugly nativism.

The only upside is that it might cost the Republicans some Chinese American votes.

#USPolitics #Texas #Sinophobia #Nativism #Racism #Xenophobia #China #ChineseAmericans

How Trump Denying Visas to Chinese Students Could Backfire on the US

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/business/china-student-visas-trump.html