The first known Chinese-American film ever made (Marion Wong's 1916 The Curse of Quon Gwon) was also one of the first American movies to be written and directed by a woman.
David Henry Hwang (author): There was still the implicit assumption that there existed an authentic way to portray Asians. By the time I got to the early 90s, I started to think, "you know, in the same way that multi-culturalism is that different groups have slightly different realities, then it is also the case that within a group there are different realities."
Among the comments provided in this episode are those of Ang Lee, Wayne Wang, James Hong, Nancy Kwan, Christopher Lee, and Joan Chen.
Weird, no one has discussed American Masters yet.
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