yellowface

Already a mother when she meets Richard, as well as an actress with plenty of experience in Chinese films, Vivian in 1975 is a complex figure, struggling to break into an industry that was rarely writing roles for her, with whitewashing and yellowface still very much a reality.

Kuang’s 2023 novel “Yellowface” looks identical to the original, including the English title.

Miss Shu Mai, a Taiwanese American drag queen who hosted the K-Pop Night, recalled seeing white actors in yellowface — makeup that made them look East Asian in L.A.’s drag scene.

Colleen Ballinger is again facing criticism — this time for old videos of her performing in yellowface and a Beyoncé parody that’s called ‘mockery.’

Christie tweeted a separate video that accuses Ballinger of editing her videos to scrub them of racist content, including a “Talk Dirty to Me” parody, where she appears in yellowface, dressed in Asian garb with a fan, speaking in a vaguely East Asian accent.