Word: yung
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While this is the year of Shogun, it is also the year of Edgar Foo Yung, Fu Manchu, Charlie Chan, and Singapore Sue. These racist depictions of Asians have returned to the screen and stage as vehicles of "sophisticated humor" in full technological splendor. Hasty Pudding's "A Little Knife Music" and Warner Brother's "The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu" featured stereotypic, sinister and subhuman Asian males (played by white actors) who lust after white women. Last month, Hasty Pudding offered us the female counterparts: Singapore Sue (so sweet and soft and gentle, my favorite Oriental) and Madame...
DIED. Victor Sen Yung, 65, San Francisco-born actor who played the "No. 1 Son" of Movie Sleuth Charlie Chan in the 1930s and 1940s and later was noted for his role as the cook Hop Sing on the long-running TV series Bonanza; of suffocation; in North Hollywood, Calif...
Third World students at Harvard continually feel the effects of institutional racism. The appointment of Arnold C. Harberger to the directorship of the Harvard Institute of International Development, the Hasty Pudding Theatrical's racist stereotype Edgar Foo Yung character, The Harvard Crimson's photograph of two Black men behind superimposed bars, are three recent examples. The explanation or justification for all of these incidents has been that the racism was not intentional and/or relevant to the issue...
Hasty Pudding Theatricals regrets that members of our audience have been offended by the character of Edgar Foo Yung in A Little Knife Music. The Hasty Pudding Show is intended to be purely funny and enjoyable for the audience. If any member of the audience leaves the show with a bad feeling, we view that as a failure on our part...
Pudding characters are designed to be completely unbelievable. In no way can any character in the show be likened to any individual living or dead. The humor of the show derives from ludicrous characterizations at which the audience can laugh without feeling insulted. Edgar Foo Yung is such a character. He bears no resemblance to any Asian person past or present. He is designed to poke fun at an absurd 19th century stereotype. This is what the Mikado, which played this fall at the Agassiz, has been doing on a much larger scale for years. Both shows attempt to make...