Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's is one of the most painful and aggravating yellowface performances I've ever seen. I purposefully avoided including a photo of him in this essay because as an Asian American, I have seen it enough to last a lifetime. It already lives in my brain rent free.

Why would the Chinese in China care about American cinema's representation of Asian Americans? You've conflated many things here. Chinese Americans are not the same thing as Chinese people in China. And the Chinese also don't live in America under the yoke of racism, so they wouldn't feel affronted by casual American racism. Moreover, Mr. Yunioshi is Japanese. The Chinese would not object to the Japanese being parodied.