He is famous in Europe and america, and he is slandered all over the world; he is tall and thin, his head is bald, and he still hangs two-stroke beard; he has slender eyes, his eyes are gloomy, and he glances at the cold at will; he is full of bad water and has a penchant for doing evil; he always acts secretly, killing and killing, not beating badly, jumping out from time to time to harm people... Who is he? He's Fu Manchu! In 1913, the British mystery novelist Sax Rohmer created a novel called The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu, and Dr. Fu Manchu was created. He concentrated all the worst western imaginations of the Chinese at that time. Behind it is the "yellow peril" of 19th-century Europe.
Christopher Lee, later the white-robed mage Saruman
In the decades since, Fu Manchu's image has been made into more than a dozen movies, becoming the embodiment of evil in the eyes of white people. Remember the white-robed wizard Saruman in The Lord of the Rings? The white actor's name is Christopher Lee, and his famous work is Fu Manchu. At that time, the Chinese were synonymous with obscenity and evil in the eyes of whites, until Bruce Lee's birth.
I think everyone knows who this person is below, and he was ruined because he played the image of Fu Manchu.
In addition, this person I think everyone is also very familiar with, the image he played at that time is in line with the European and American low-level people, the basic understanding of the Chinese, Captain Jack has to deal with the Orientals, the bad guy should be this image.
So in the minds of Europeans and Americans in the last century, what is the image of an Oriental woman? There is a psychological comedy "Medea" in Europe and the United States that looks at Oriental women from the perspective of Westerners, creating an Oriental priestess, who betrays her father for love, flees the motherland, and uses sinister tricks to kill her brother, slender small eyes, dark eyes, and fierce work.
Here we would like to thank this person, because his birth has brought a very positive impact on the image of the Chinese in the minds of Europeans and Americans. Unfortunately, he died young, and may the other shore be peaceful.
What is puzzling, however, is that a hundred years later, a group of senior Chinese intellectuals picked up the makeup again and embarked on the catwalk. Their slender eyes and gloomy eyes give people a feeling of chill, which always reminds people of Fu Manchu, the female version of Fu Manchu, especially the last zhenzi Fu Manchu who escaped alive. And the catwalk party responded that this is a design concept, which integrates the design of ethnic elements, when did our ancient nation have the white eyeballs of the dove? I can't understand it!