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- Visiting BWBs.
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Indeed. The letters columns (even back in the 1980s) did look at the appropriateness of using a character epitomising the Yellow Peril element, against the need to be equitable. If Shang Chi is the central hero, if Leiko Wu is a crucial "good guy", then what does it say if there are no Chinese villains?
Now, although that's a century earlier, Mark Twain did use the term without ill intent, such as when he wrote: "They are quiet, peaceable, tractable, free from drunkenness, and they are as industrious as the day is long. A disorderly Chinaman is rare, and a lazy one does not exist."For example, Black Jack Tarr, an older agent (and that would be older when being written in the 1970s) constantly and continually refers to Shang Chi as “Chinaman”.