#rf kuang yellowface

[cjbolan]

My Yellowface Dream Cast So Far…

Gemma Chan/Constance Wu as Athena Liu:

Anne Hathaway/Anna Kendrick as Juniper “Song” Hayward:

Antony Starr as Justin:

John Cena as Harvey:

[paperbaacks]

༊*·˚ — 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝟻-𝟺-𝟹-𝟸-𝟷 𝚝𝚊𝚐

✧ — five books i love

the invisible life of addie larue - v.e. schwab

the seven husbands of evelyn hugo - taylor jenkins reid

yellowface - r.f. kuang

piranesi - susanna clarke

paper moon - rehana munir

✧ — four books on my tbr

the cinnamon bun book store - laurie gilmore

butter - asako yuzuki (translated by polly barton)

just kids - patti smith

the picture of dorian gray - oscar wilde

✧ — three books i recommend

babel - r.f. kuang

loveless - alice oseman

blue sisters - coco mellors

✧ — two books i've read recently

intermezzo - sally rooney

in the dream house - carmen maria machado

✧ — one book i'm currently reading

the pumpkin spice café - laurie gilmore

[dinoari]

would hate to be the main character or their best friend in an r. f. kuang novel. immediate death sentence

[nepttunnee]

not enough people talk about how rf kuang immediately writes a book shitting on anything she decides is bad no matter her connection to it and how iconic it is. lived in the us? fuck you, here’s tpw. graduated oxford? babel. harper collins published her book?? here, publish this one thats directly a call out about you.

[teartra]

[senny-wenny]

Who were you written by?

RF Kuang. My life is a nightmare and I am suffering constantly and consistently

[icedsodapop]

Another case of yellowface in publishing:

Source: tiktok

And if you are interested in the brief history of White authors pretending to be Asian so that they could steal opportunities from Asian authors to publish books, check this video out:

[percocet]

just finished reading yellowface by rf kuang and ho-ly shit. that's how satire is done. i have so many thoughts. would absolutely recommend a read to anybody, but especially white people. if you're serious about unlearning anti-asian racism, you should read this book. if you're asian, esp east asian, and you want to see a thieving, racist bitch get her comeuppance (while examining the insidiousness of white womanhood, the patriarchal system that allows this brand of whiteness to proliferate unchecked, debating ownership/authorship in storytelling, and more), you should read this book. holy shit.

[youknowididnothavetohauntyou]

Nezha to Rin in *that scene* in the Dragon Republic (Book 2 in The Poppy War trilogy)

[belle-keys]

Superior Subgenre: Race Satire by WOC

Here are my recommendations for satirical contemporary books by women of colour about racial fetishization and white neoliberals. Highly recommend these three books if you want to laugh, introspect, and marinate on how American society and institutions are being cooked by the culture war.

[cjbolan]

Up to Chapter 5 of RF Kuang’s Yellowface. Trying a new thing where I read more chapters of a book before I give my opinions on it. That way I’ll have more to say.

Nearly all of June’s secret microaggressions towards Chinese people are things people IRL have said to or in front of me. Like:

1) her complimenting Chinese people’s’ English (this seems like a compliment, but it shows you really don’t expect us to speak proficient English).

2) her complaints about Chinese food.

3) how she said Chinese characters look like a bunch of chicken scratch

4) her jealous complaints about her Chinese friend being “diverse enough” to become more famous than her.

5) Her immediate excuses for her subtle racism. Like she knows someone’s gonna tell her she’s racist.

Also kinda funny June likens herself to Kanye. After his very bigoted comments, maybe she and him are more alike than she thinks.

Well, gonna keep reading !

[wondering-whispers]

My heart will never not break when thinking about the significance of Robin's name in Babel. From the beginning until the very last page of the book, the way Kuang so beautifully yet tragically portrayed his journey is brilliant. [Spoilers ahead]

During his last moments,it wasn't the Robin who was brave enough to bring about a revolution and go against everything he was made to believe in. He was no hero. He was that young boy from Canton who wanted nothing but his mother to recover. I will never get over this book.

[archiveofliterature]

anyway i have Thoughts™ about how ramy is perceived to be just a mouthpiece for rf kuang's anti-colonialist views

at this point i'm genuinely gonna have to reread babel for a 3rd time to see what that means bc. huh?

of course disclaimer preface whatever you are allowed to have your own views you're allowed to feel what you feel you're allowed to not like a book

i just feel like – it's the way a queer character just exists in fiction and in the real world, where they happen to experience prejudice in regards to their identity, but cishets just perceive them to be making "queer" their entire personality

it's the same thing here? when you see a brown character talking about how he feels about britain settling in india (britain, who ends up murdering 100 MILLION indians during this settlement btw!!!) and therefore witness how that naturally results in his strong-willed anti-colonialist views – how is that just his personality? how is that just all that he is? is that all there is to pay attention to whenever ramy opens his mouth?

from what i recall, ramy loves reading and translating, loves cooking even though he's bad at it, loves his religion and okay maybe there is a reading on colonialism in those bits too but when you are literally living in a colonial world, i don't know how you expect none of it to link back. that's how writing works and that's what it means to be a poc in a white man's world

again, just some thoughts lol

[mydailybookquotes]

“Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hurts too much.”

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

[austenwazright]

Reading babel was hard in a chest-aching-soul-breaking way, I felt like it would be easier to just reap my heart out once and for all, reading yellowface is hard as in I-wanna-punch-the-racist-so-bad, all her commentaries, the total disregard she has for the culture, for the language just makes me so angry

[silvermarig0lds]

can’t believe i actually got to see rf kuang speak irl 🥺 was such a dream come true