The Museum of Chinese in the Americas presents an exclusive screening of Shanghai Kiss
Co-sponsored by FALLOUT CENTRAL (www.falloutcentral.com)
Screening followed by Q&A with writer/co-director David Ren
Monday, October 1, 7:30pm
LOCATION
ImaginAsian Theater
239 East 59th Street bet 2nd and 3rd Ave.
All tickets are $10
For more information and RSVP’s
please call 212-619-4785 ext 106
Liam Liu ( Ken Leung, HBO’s THE SOPRANOS) is a likeable, struggling L.A. actor who inadvertently finds himself as the object of affection for a pretty Beverly Hills teen (Hayden Panettiere, NBC’s HEROES). When Liam inherits his grandmother’s home in Shanghai, his visit to China and introduction to Micky (Kelly Hu, THE SCORPION KING, XMEN 2)—a woman who captures his imagination like no other—force him to reconsider his Chinese roots. Caught between two worlds (and two women), Liam must now sort out the complicated desires of his heart, and find out who he really is.
For a free ticket to this screening, courtesy of FALLOUT CENTRAL, email us at comments@falloutcentral.com with the subject line “SHANGHAI KISS OFFER.” Only the first 30 RSVP’s will be accepted.
It’s pretty rare to see an Asian-looking hero in any movie, TV show, or any other form of mainstream media. Tired images of the unassimilable, socially retarted “master” such as the master of the Hot Pockets Dojo and the also-unassimilable and poor-english-speaking store owner in the Stride Gum “bad for business” advertising campaign are all too common these days.
However, a recently released video game, Stranglehold, presented by John Woo shows some promise. The animated movie scenes as well as the in-game action and physics of the game are all based on the distinctive style found in John Woo’s movies, and the hero is a digital replica of Chow Yun Fat complete with in-game and movie-sequence dialogue entirely spoken by Chow Yun Fat himself. Pick up your copy today!
This editorial by Bill Imada on Advertising Age attempts to dive into the complexity of defining Asian America. Here’s a brief excerpt:
In California, where PC behavior is expected of every corporate and community leader, marketers are confronted with a variety of self-described (and occasionally self-imposed) terms and labels. Most civic leaders continue to demonstrate their inclusive tendencies by referring to themselves as Asian Pacific American (no hyphens), although the more PC term is still Asian and Pacific Islander American or Asian American and Pacific Islander. In the San Francisco Bay Area, there is a movement afoot to be even more inclusive by adding Native Hawaiians and Alaska Natives to the mix. So don’t be surprised when someone self-describes as Native Hawaiian/Alaska Native/Pacific Islander Asian American or Pacific Islander/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian and Asian American.
Scale 1, Antilocution: Antilocution means a majority group freely makes jokes about a minority group. Speech is in terms of negative stereotypes and negative images. This is also called hate speech. It is commonly seen as harmless by the majority. Antilucution sets the stage for more severe outlets for prejudice.
Whoopi Goldberg on the 9/4/07 edition of the Barbara Walters production, The View.
Scale 4 Physical Attack: The majority group vandalize minority group things, they burn property and carry out violent attacks on individuals or groups. Physical harm is done to members of the minority group. Examples: lynchings of blacks, pogroms against Jews in Europe, tarring and feathering Mormons in the 1800s.
CHICAGO (AP) - Members of various Chicago Asian-American groups held a vigil yesterday at Montrose Harbor on the city’s lakefront for a Vietnamese immigrant who was pushed into Lake Michigan and drowned.
Scale 1, Antilocution: Antilocution means a majority group freely makes jokes about a minority group. Speech is in terms of negative stereotypes and negative images. This is also called hate speech. It is commonly seen as harmless by the majority. Antilucution sets the stage for more severe outlets for prejudice.
According to this article on MercuryNews.com, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission today announced that a San Jose auto body shop will pay $45,000 to settle a sexual and racial harassment lawsuit.
The EEOC filed the lawsuit against Monterey Collision Frame and Auto Body, charging that a technician of Chinese and Italian ancestry was subjected to repeated racial and sexual harassment during the six months he worked at the shop, including mimicking martial arts movements and mockingly calling him “Bruce Lee.”
Scale 4 Physical Attack: The majority group vandalize minority group things, they burn property and carry out violent attacks on individuals or groups. Physical harm is done to members of the minority group. Examples: lynchings of blacks, pogroms against Jews in Europe, tarring and feathering Mormons in the 1800s.
CHICAGO — Police here are trying to determine if the weekend drowning of a Vietnamese man who was pushed into the water of a Lake Michigan harbor was a hate crime, saying the man was the third fisherman who appeared to be Asian to be targeted.
“Based on the pattern, there is a possibility that it could be a hate crime,” Chicago police spokeswoman Monique Bond said Tuesday of the drowning death of Du Doan, 62. “It’s a very strong possibility.”
Click here to read the rest of the Associated Press article on foxnews.com.
This article indicates that the Asian American TV market in Seattle is growing faster than the national average.
If a corporation wants to take advantage of opportunities to sell products or services to a particular growing segment of the population (in this case, Asian Americans), they’ll first look at ratings such as the one mentioned in the article. If individuals in the target demographic are buying products that were advertised in certain ways, then those advertisements and images will continue to be put out there. Those images can be positive, or negative. Your buying habits (and viewing habits) drive the images that are put out there.
The Museum of Chinese in the Americas presents an exclusive screening of Shanghai Kiss
It’s pretty rare to see an Asian-looking hero in any movie, TV show, or any other form of mainstream media. Tired images of the unassimilable, socially retarted “master” such as the master of the 
However, a recently released video game, 
