WOMEN IN PRINT

Jade Fon Woo was a highly recognized Asian American watercolorist. Between the years 1940 and 1955, Jade Fon Woo himself worked as an entertainer at night clubs in San Francisco. This piece, entitled “Forbidden City Nightclub - Chinatown San Francisco,” portrays the exocitization of Asian American women in San Francisco’s Chinatown during the early 20th century. At the time, all ethnic casts and all white audiences dominated the club scene. These performances sometimes played up the “foreign” nature of the performers, but also placed them in traditionally white roles and moved them to perform culturally American acts, thus blurring the racial lines. Jade Fon Woo 是一个很有名的亚裔美国水彩画家。在一九四零年到一九五五年期间，Jade Fon Woo 在旧金山的夜总会做艺人。这副叫“紫禁城夜总会 - 旧金山唐人街” 的画描绘了二十世纪早期亚裔美国女人在旧金山唐人街的异国风情。那时候，所有的表演者是其他种族，而所有的观众却是白人。那些表演有时候会夸大表演者的“外国的”特征，但是他们扮演的却是传统的白种的角色，所以种族的区分变成模糊了。