When I was traveling in rural America, I stumbled upon the forgotten history of the anti-Chinese riots that took place across California throughout the 1880s.
This post was written by Miida Chu.
Not only was I shocked by how cruel the racist rhetoric was, but also I was surprised by how inhumanely the Chinese women were treated among the Chinese immigrants. Upon further research, I discovered the shocking statistics that 77% percent of the Chinese women in California worked as sex workers in 1870.
I realized it was a story that needs to be told. I wanted to show what it meant to be caught in the intersection of oppression, both for your race and for your gender.
That was how I decided to make Eureka, a 15-minute psychological drama about a young indentured Chinese prostitute who must overcome her toxic dependency on the brothel madam on the eve of the 1885 anti-Chinese riot in Eureka, California.
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This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
