Notice: Asian Female Role Model Series

[sandra]

i'm going to start posting profiles of asian female role models in our community. a new asian female role model will selected every other week. to nominate someone (even a fellow yw member), please private message me with the individual's picture and a brief blurb on why you believe she should be a YW role model :)


Featured:

1. Angela Oh
2. Maya Ying Lin
3. Mari Matsuda
4. Patsy T Mink
5. Yuri Kochiyama
6. Thuy Thi Nguyen
7. Lee Takasugi
8. Judy Chu
9. Chloe Christine Pang
10. Maxine Hong Kingston
11. Iris Chang

[Commando_turned_MD]

I vote for KASIA..... :P

[LCY]

Awesome. I'll have to go look for some people to nominate.

[SunWuKong]

what a minute, do they have to be alive? and if not, how dead are they allowed to be?

[sandra]

Originally posted by SunWuKung@Jan 25 2003, 07:24 AM
what a minute, do they have to be alive? and if not, how dead are they allowed to be?

doesn't matter. i don't see why that should be a factor.

[Shuriken]

How about Maxine Hong Kingston?

[Shuriken]

Patsy Takemoto Mink (1928-2002)

[Shuriken]

Yuri Nakahara Kochiyama

[Shuriken]

Joan Chen

(born Chen Chong in Shanghai, China, 1961)

Hollywood squandered this beautiful and talented actress after her breakthrough performance in the multiple Oscar-winning movie The Last Emperor (1987). Frustrated with being typecast as a straight-to-video sexpot, she stepped behind the camera and became the first Asian woman to direct a Hollywood-financed feature film, MGM's Autumn in New York.

[SunWuKong]

Originally posted by Shuriken@Feb 3 2003, 06:33 PM


Yuri Nakahara Kochiyama

i second the vote for yuri definitely.

[Shuriken]

If you're interested in role models from the continent of Asia, there's

Aung San Suu Kyi

[kitty]

bai ling (for Red Corner)

[Shuriken]

Originally posted by kittygirl@Feb 17 2003, 01:50 AM
bai ling (for Red Corner)

Do you really think that her performance in that one movie makes her a role model? What else has she done?

[kitty]

Originally posted by Shuriken@Feb 17 2003, 06:10 PM
Do you really think that her performance in that one movie makes her a role model? What else has she done?

not that her performance was all that good, but that she was willing to stand up against the Chinese gov't for it.

[Shuriken]

Originally posted by kittygirl@Feb 18 2003, 04:58 PM
not that her performance was all that good, but that she was willing to stand up against the Chinese gov't for it.

But that was the character, not the actress herself. One shouldn't confuse the two. I think that a woman ought to be more than just a working actress in order to be considered as a role model. Has she done anything out of the ordinary, as Joan Chen did by overcoming her sex-vixen niche in the industry and directing a Hollywood feature?