Despite enormous strides in UK theatre, east Asian actors are missing on our screens " or expected to sound like Fu Manchu In the 1920s, a group of Chinese students protested to parliament about no less than six concurrently running plays in London's West End starring white actors in yellowface, which the students believed portrayed Chinese people in a derogatory way. A decade later, on the set of a silent film shot …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM on June 14, 2019