Another thing that I could point out in the movie The World of Suzie Wong was the cast: the actor of Suzie Wong role Nancy Kwan was a Eurasian—the mix of Chinese and English—who was on the side of VERY EURO looks but  was put so much emphasis on being Asian. This might be the very early case of casting ‘real’ Asian in Hollywood context. Prior to this point, movies set in the Eastern Asian block such as The Quiet American or Love is a splendid thing employed simply Western or American actresses and made believe—passed them— just as they were Asians. This was how Asian faces were introduced to American coding method of minorities physical features. In other words, it seemed almost impossible for American audience to recognize and accept Asian faces as the legitimate images cast upon the Hollywood screen, so they had to conceal them and substituted by something remotely hinting the real Asians’ physical features such as dark hair but never really Asian. This was their most compromise made in order not to disturb the American social order based upon the very physical and aesthetic standard. In other words, that was the norm widely prevailed and supported racism as the primary social order in the US.

This serves us a very example of how subjective all the representation can be regardless of man made or real people filming. Besides, it explains how difficult it is to introduce ‘new images’ especially those who were already stigmatized and inscribed as something negative. Asian bodies were initially introduced to the occidental psyche as ‘dead bodies’ or ‘insects to be terminated’ due to the wars that all involved genocide. How to change the currency was a mission for all creators who handled Asian images in any favorable way rather than an exploitative fashion.

We can never see beyond what we expect to see and what is expected to be seen unless we make any deliberate effort to read the code and go beyond the political and also unconscious manipulation.