Stereotyped Chinese Images In American Films

The purpose of this research is to analyze from a cross-cultural perspective, the stereotypical portrayal of Chinese in Hollywood movies, and to explain some of the complicated elements involved in cross-cultural representations. It is a detailed analysis of Chinese characters in Hollywood movies and the contextualization of their meanings in this modern society. It demonstrates how Chinese have been portrayed and treated in Hollywood films. The general feature of Chinese stereotypes and the racial formation reflected in these stereotypes are examined. This study concentrates on how Chinese people are depicted in popular culture and it emphasizes the racist ideology created, recreated and spread by Hollywood movies. The causes and effects of the stereotypical depictions are also underlined. Such depictions essentialize and naturalize racial differences, producing a chain of cultural oppositions, separating the ethnic other against a mainstream white American culture. This is a significant and interesting issue that is worthy discussing, because it involves such large respects of popular culture. It is crucial to Identify and understand the Chinese stereotypes in Hollywood films in analyzing the culture essence implied from the movies.Concerning the Chinese images in American silver screens, Hollywood produces a form of language that represents the ethnic and racial other. To examine such cultural myth as these Chinese stereotypes in Hollywood movies and their impacts, will make us learn to think differently in cross-cultural communication. Culture conflicts often happen in the cross-cultural communication. In cross-cultural meetings, one thing will be the barrier for understanding:the deep prejudice and built-in blinders that every culture has. One’s own culture can not been seen until it meets another different culture. In order to understand the culture of the human being better, first people should have a general understanding of their own culture, especially the invisible unconscious culture, and then people can go beyond the restrictions of their own culture.