... plot may seem, it forms the basis for the syndicated television series, Vanishing Son (Universal Television, 1994-95), [2] starring another bi-racial performer, Russell Wong, as Jian-Wa "Johnny- Chang. Like Lo and Caine before him, Jian-Wa quite literally blends East and West through the casting of the ... network home, Vanishing Son needs to have the ability to travel across network, cable, satellite, as well as national, ethnic, and linguistic borders. Russell Wong as Jian-Wa has to appeal to audiences that will draw in advertisers transnationally. Thus, Vanishing Son encourages cross-c...

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... remained as black as they were faced with respect to their jobs and art. Their people tried not to identify with their art and the white people outright ignored it. Russell Simmons, when he was a guest on the Arsenio Hall talk show made an interesting observation about the artistic responsibility of the African American artist. He said the fight between freedom ... ...

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