He was calm, rational, and insightful. We can hardly applaud the practice of yellowface
1 with which the character has become associated, but we can at least separate him from the grotesque Asian villains generated by the Yellow Peril. He was a pop-culture hero to North American audiences in an era when the western mass media vilified people of Asian descent and the laws excluded them from public life. And, despite his broken English and love of fortune cookieaphorisms, the character did not speak pidgin, as has often been stated by those critiquing the character.
He is Charlie Chan, and he has been celebrated and reviled since 1925.
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February 09, 2021
Former journalist Susan Bamber and her dog Sammy in Sai Kung, Having found that looking after a friend’s dog when he was away helped assuage her grief after the loss of her husband, the frend’s leaving Hong Kong for good triggered her to adopt Sammy from a refuge. Hong Kong.
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When Susan Bamber’s husband, Jack Upson, fell ill in late 2010, she took time off from her work as a journalist to care for him. When he died in April 2011, just 14 months after he was diagnosed with Stage 4 stomach cancer, she was devastated and decided not to return to work.