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渴望父爱? 美刊邓文迪章子怡为例评论亚裔嫁白人
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据报道，美国最近一期的女性杂志Marie Claire上刊登一篇对亚裔女性嫁给年长的白人男性现象的评论文章，在亚裔小区引起广泛争议，在亚裔记者协会的会员交流电邮中，这个话题成为近日的热点，一些会员甚至建议记者协会的“媒体观察”小组致信Marie Claire总编提出抗议。
这篇署名Ying Chu的评论文章题目是《新花瓶老婆：亚裔女人》，文章以导演伍迪艾伦与小他35岁的养女宋仪的婚姻作为开场，以媒体大王默多克和比他小38岁的华裔邓文迪，影星尼古拉斯凯奇和年龄只有他的一半的第三任韩裔Alice Kim，赵小兰的妹妹赵安吉与比她大26岁的富豪Bruce Wasserstein以及30岁的中国影星章子怡和44岁的时代华纳大股东Vivi Nevo等亚裔女性和年长白人男性的新近婚姻或订婚作为例子来分析这个“新现象”。
作者提出此类婚姻的兴起可能有白人男性的殖民征服欲趋势的因素，因为在他们眼中亚裔女性温顺顾家的类型，不像白人女性会有中年危机、离婚和不愿照顾小孩等问题。作者又提出，为什么这些亚裔女性愿意嫁给这些年龄可以做自己祖父的白人男性，被媒体说三道四，是否因为她们渴望父爱，还是因为她们只是投机者？
文章连接经一名会员在交流电邮中发送给所有会员之后，在亚裔记协的成员中引起强烈反响，回帖者中不乏一些媒体资深人士。曾经开创亚裔杂志A Magazine的杨致和表示这篇文章“令人愤怒”，他指出邓文迪、赵安吉、张子怡都是本身也非常有成就的女性，把她们与宋仪放在一起来概括所有亚裔女性和白人男性的婚姻本身就是一种“刻板印象”，再说章子怡只比未婚夫Nevo小14岁，根本也不属于作者说的那种“嫁给祖父”式的关系。
任职媒体的Catherine Chu在回贴中说这篇文章非常“冒犯”(offensive) ，作为嫁给白人的亚裔女性，Catherine Chu说她感到在这种跨族裔婚姻中，虽然白人男性有时会被人说成是有“黄热病”，但亚裔女性却更多被放在审判台上被人加上柔弱﹑趋炎附势和物质至上的标签。
曾在《纽约时报》任职的Tony Ramirez的回贴只有一句话：“天哪，(文章)多么没品味。”不过也有人认为这篇文章的作者只是想以反讽的手法来揭示“亚裔花瓶老婆”这种说法有多可笑。一些会员提出亚裔记协应当就此致信抗议。
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The New Trophy Wives: Asian Women Rupert Murdoch has one. So do financiers Vivi Nevo and Bruce Wasserstein. Why are the West's most powerful men coupling up with younger Asian women?
By Ying Chu
Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn
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EmailPrintRSSShare Call it the Woody Allen Effect. When the venerable director scandalously left Mia Farrow for her adopted daughter, South Korean-born Soon-Yi Previn — 35 years his junior — he may as well have sent out a press release: Asian-girl fantasy trumps that of Hollywood royalty!
Not two years after they tied the knot, media baron Rupert Murdoch walked down the aisle with fresh-faced Wendi Deng — 17 days after finalizing his divorce from his second wife. Then, CBS head Leslie Moonves wed TV news anchor Julie Chen; Oscar winner Nicolas Cage married half-his-age third wife Alice Kim; billionaire George Soros coupled up with violinist Jennifer Chun; and producer Brian Grazer courted concert pianist Chau-Giang Thi Nguyen. Add the nuptials of investment magnate Bruce Wasserstein to fourth wife Angela Chao and the pending vows between venture capitalist Vivi Nevo and Chinese actress Ziyi Zhang, and we've got a curious cultural ripple.
Were these tycoons consciously courting Asian babes? Do any of them qualify for the unnerving "yellow fever" or "rice king" moniker? It's unsavory to think so. But after two or three failed attempts at domestic bliss with women of like background and age, these heavy hitters sought out something different. Something they had likely fetishized.
Enter the doll-faced Asian sylph on the arm of a silver-haired Western suit. (Hello, mail-order bride!) The excruciating colonial stereotypes — Asian women as submissive, domestic, hypersexual — are obviously nothing new. But decades after The World of Suzie Wong hit drive-ins and more than 20 years since David Bowie's "China Girl" topped the music charts, why are we still indulging them?
Because they're omnipresent — and often entertaining. Even now, how many cinematic greats, literary best sellers, or even cell-phone ads (see Motorola's latest) characterize Asian women as something other than geishas, ninjas, or dragon ladies? As the ob<x>ject of opening-line zingers like "Me love you long time" (the infamous line from Stanley Kubrick's Full me<x>tal Jacket), I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry at the cheeky blog stuffwhitepeoplelike.com, which ranks Asian girls at number 11 because "Asian women avoid key white women characteristics, such as having a midlife crisis, divorce, and hobbies that don't involve taking care of the children." Sure, I'm petite and was in fact born in Shanghai, but — to the shock of more than one guy I've gone out with — I'd rather down an icy beer and burger than nurse bubble tea and eat dumplings while massaging his back with my toes.
"This is a common experience among Asian-American women," says Bich Minh Nguyen, who broaches the stereotypes in her latest novel, Short Girls. "They're dating a white guy, and they may not know if it's a fet[]sh thing."
"It's like a curse that Asian-American women can't avoid," says C.N. Le, director of Asian and Asian-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. "From an academic point of view, the perception still serves as a motivation for white men."
In researching his new book, The East, the West, and Sex, author Richard Bernstein found that the Orientalist illusion continues to influence. "Historically, Asia provided certain sexual opportunities that would be much more difficult for Western men to have at home. But it remains a happy hunting ground for them today," he says, citing one phenomenon in the northeastern region of Thailand called Issan, where 15 percent of marriages are between young Thai women and Western men well into their 60s.
But I suspect there's something else about the East that's seducing business bigwigs at this very moment: globalization. Consider that, stateside, Mandarin classes have spiked 200 percent over the past five years (apparently, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was an early adopter; he taught Mandarin classes in his Dartmouth days), and China has claimed status as the world's top export nation. In Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell theorizes that Asian kids' intrinsic work ethic makes them outsmart American kids in math. (In the latest Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development international education survey, Taiwanese students were tops in math, while the U.S. placed 35th.) It's as though these Western men are hungry for a piece of that mystical Eastern formula. As such, Asians (in addition to African orphans) are hot commodities right about now — status symbols as prized as a private Gulfstream jet or a museum wing bearing your name (neither of which goes so well with a frumpy, aging first wife).
Tellingly, most current trophies of choice are far more than exotic arm candy. They are accomplished musicians and journalists, they have Ivy League MBAs and hail from prestigious political families (Mrs. Wasserstein's older sis is former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao). Why, then, are these women falling for rich white patriarchs? Why be a target for headline comparisons to concubines? When Wendi Deng was described as "The Yellow Peril" in a recent magazine profile, it only marginalized her achievement: As chief strategist for MySpace China, she has become central to News Corp.'s expansion into the elusive Chinese market — something Murdoch himself had attempted, and failed to do, before she came into the picture.
While I'm sure that real love and affection is sometimes the bond in these culture-crossing May-December romances, could it be that power divorcés of a certain ilk make the perfect renegade suitors for these overachieving Asian good girls — an ultimate (yet lame) attempt at rebellion? Maybe these outsized, world-class moguls are stand-ins for emotionally repressed Asian dads (one cliché that is predominantly true). Or...are these women just glorified opportunists? What's so perverse is that while Asians have always revered their elders, sleeping with a guy old enough to be your grandfather is just creepy — in any culture.
Skepticism aside, the new trophy trend does have its benefits. We're already seeing a positive impact on global politics, economics, and the arts: The Chinese became privy to online social networking in 2007 with the launch of MySpace China under the News Corp. umbrella; contemporary Chinese painters — including Xiaogang Zhang and Minjun Yue — have rung up nearly $400 million in sales on international art circuits since 2006, thanks to well-connected supporters like Ziyi Zhang; and almost 43 percent of international adoptions, which have more than tripled since 1990, now come out of Asian countries (more playdates for Pax and Maddox). What's more, perhaps a proliferation of gorgeous, mixed-race, multilingual offspring (assuming a classical Mandarin tutor is on the Chen-Moonves registry) is just good for our landscape. However you look at it, one thing's for sure: We're going to have to get used to this new international power family — aging mogul and foxy Asian wife flaunting a double-wide with newborn and adopted Malawian tot. What's next — the token trophy pet? I hear endangered Burmese rabbits are exceptionally cuddly.
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