Where are the Chineses? by tungbo

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Where are the Chineses?

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Wednesday, July 21, 2004 7:42 AM

If the Sino-Anglo Alliance became ascendant, how come there are so few Chineses working for the Alliance?

If everyone knows some Chinese, where are the common Chinese people in the Firefly universe?

Mike Strazinski was able to coral some talented Asian American actors to build a believable multi-racial Babylon 5 universe by simply INSISTING on race-blind casting. Many talented AA actors/actresses continues to be ignored by the cating agents even when the roles do NOT specify any race. They only get a shot at roles specifically named as Asian in the script.

I hope that Joss Whedon will do race-blind casting in the movie so that the movie will not be just be Bonanza in space, but an intriguing and fully fleshed plausible future.

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Wednesday, July 21, 2004 8:08 AM

CARDIE

We've talked about this in a number of threads, and I totally agree with you, tungbo. Unfortunately, none of the significant guest star roles in the BDM is played by an Asian actor either.

Cardie

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Wednesday, July 21, 2004 8:24 AM

HAKEN

Likes to mess with stuffs.

Quote:
Originally posted by Cardie:
We've talked about this in a number of threads, and I totally agree with you, tungbo. Unfortunately, none of the significant guest star roles in the BDM is played by an Asian actor either.

And, it seems, not too many background people were Asians either. I'm sure there are many Asian Firefly fans out there willing to volunteer their time to be on the BDM.

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Wednesday, July 21, 2004 7:28 PM

SHINY

Well, I sent in my photo to the address Chris Buchanan posted...even added a note saying I'd be ready to come in any time "if you are short a few short asian extras"...

"I left my heart in Seren-ity Val-ley..." <-- the farthest I've ever gotten in writing filk. ;)

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Saturday, October 15, 2005 10:19 AM

JAYNEZTOWN

Asian actors are rare in sci-fi, there are mnay in horror, crime, kung-fu and drama movies but few in science fiction

check this thread for other points
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=13449

George Takei is famous for his Star Trek work (Lt. Sulu ) but I'm not sure if he's done much lately

Zhang Ziyi did scifi with 2046 but she's a massive and expensive China/Hollywood star

Daniel Dae Kim has done the Babylon5 scifi Crusade but he's busy with Untitled Onion Movie and the tv
show Lost

its a fact that there are very few Asian actors in sci-fi

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Sunday, October 16, 2005 2:50 AM

ROBOZ

G'day and Ni Hao folks,

I asked Joss about this very subject when I interviewed him for my genre radio show Downunder in OZ. Being of half Chinese extraction I always appreciated seeing any Asian actors at all in genre shows when I was growing up....heh, I got to thank George Takei for being a rare Asian role model in space when I interviewed him years ago too.

If you want to hear the Joss interview just type rrr.org.au into your search engine and you'll find it archived on the radio station's website.

Cheerio & You zhe dianr

ROBOZ

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Thursday, February 5, 2026 11:25 AM

JAYNEZTOWN

maybe the Chinese stayed in the central power like 'Beijing' once seen itself as the center of the world?

the frontier people were more American post Civil War culture

anyways in the real world of Industry and Trade, Capital and Tech, outside of the Giant America

China’s Rise in Three Stages

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