The Good Asian #1 Review: Save A Table In Awards Season
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The Good Asian #1 is a dazzling work of historical fiction may play as cop-aganda, but in every panel, in every detail is a masterwork of craft and shows you a number of details about American history that many might not know. This doesn t rely as deeply on the yellow peril stereotypes as Charlie Chan stories did, and can be a touch didactic in making certain points, but still remains solid storytelling.
Good Asian #1. Credit: Image Comics
While some comics are pure escapism, others can serve as conversation starters. That s certainly the case for
The Good Asian, in which hard-boiled Chinese American detective Edison Hark hunts down a killer in 1936 Chinatown. While he comes from a place of privilege, raised by a white family, Hark s being used as a tool by a racially charged police force to rough up Chinese immigrants. Will he get past his own self-loathing to bring help to his community, or will he be no different from those who cut his checks?
This fictional story is set within a factual period of American history, during the fallout of the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) and Page Act (1875), which respectively prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers and banned Chinese women from immigrating to the United States. They are the only laws to have ever been signed and implemented that banned all members of a single ethnic group from immigrating to the United States.
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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.