Why 'Crazy Rich Asians' Is Groundbreaking for People Like Me
After a day at the TIME office in Hong Kong, a colleague and I recently saw the Pixar shortBao, an eight-minute long film that aired before Incredibles 2. Directed by Domee Shi, the film follows an animated dumpling, who is nurtured by a Chinese mother into adolescence and eventually adulthood. We were both moved by the loving references Shi made to her own Chinese-Canadian upbringing. Even in cute cartoon format, we were seeing a part of ourselves authentically represented on screen for Western-oriented audiences—an experience still all too rare in 2018.
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