Word: eds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stage at the Hasty Pudding Theatricals is a character called Ed Foo Yung. The script describes him as "one of them Chinamen...with the scrawny little mustaches." He is "slimy" and "disgusting." As he enters, Ed is hunched over, pigtailed and inhuman. He mumbles in pidgin English, and leers at the blond Mae. Too weak to defend himself, he is thrown around the stage by his pigtail and must die for proclaiming his desires for "the pretty white lady...
...also untrue that a ludicrous characterization of Ed Foo Yung makes him innocuous. Gross depictions of Asians as evil and subhuman have contributed to the condoning of Japanese internment during WWII, attrocities of the massacre at MyLai, and recent creation of the Gook Klux Klan in the United States...
...Ylisaker did see Xia Chuzhang again when its Littauer School of Government classmate visited the Ed School last April with a delegation of other Chinese educators. Almost a year after that "grand reunion," Ylvisaker and Ed School doctoral candidate Abigail Housen will repay the courtesy when they go to the People's Republic of China Thursday...
...Because education is much more centralized in China you might think studies would be easier to do, but their research is still at a very simple level," Richard J. Light, another Ed School professor who will accompany Ylvisaker, says...
...Harvard has become quite a 'thing' over in China," the Ed School dean says, but he adds that "there had been a feeling that Harvard was unapproachable" before the Chinese visited last year...