Narrator: Battling discovers parental rights - A Chink after his kid! He'll learn him! Above all, Battling hates those not born in the same great country as himself.
Scrubwoman: [wearily to Lucy] Whatever you do, dearie, don't get married.
Lucy Burrows: Don't do it, Daddy! You'll hit me once too often - and then they'll - they'll hang yer!
Battling Burrows: Put a smile on yer face, can't yer?
Battling Burrows: You! With a dirty Chink!

Lucy Burrows: 'Tain't nothin' wrong! 'Tain't nothin' wrong! I fell down in the doorway and - it wasn't nothin' wrong!

Battling Burrows: I'll learn yer! I'll learn yer!
Narrator: It is a tale of temple bells, sounding at sunset before the image of Buddha; it is a tale of love and lovers; it is a tale of tears.
Narrator: The Yellow Man holds a great dream to take the glorious message of peace to the barbarous Anglo-Saxons, sons of turmoil and strife.
Narrator: Limehouse knows him only as a Chink storekeeper. The Yellow Man's youthful dreams come to wreck against the sordid realities of life. Broken bits of his life in his new home. Chinese, Malays, Lascars, where the Orient squats at the portals of the West. In this scarlet house of sin, does he ever hear the temple bells?
Lucy Burrows: Don't whip me - don't! Please, Daddy! - Don't!
Missionary's Brother: My brother leaves for China tomorrow to convert the heathen.

The Yellow Man: I-I wish him luck.
Battling Burrows: Wot yer expect me to do - pick violets?
Lucy Burrows: 'Tain't five! 'Tain't five!
Battling Burrows: Pretend yer didn't do it on purpose! I'll learn yer!
Lucy Burrows: What makes you so good to me, Chinky?
Narrator: Breathing in an amber flute to this alabaster cockney girl her love name - White Blossom.
Battling Burrows: Take them things off!
Narrator: The Yellow Man more than ever convinced that the great nations across the sea need the lessons of the gentle Buddha.
Narrator: [Last lines] As he smiles goodbye to White Blossom, all the tears of the ages rush over his heart.

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Ladarius 2022-04-19 09:02:44

The protagonist, Cheng Huan, is kind, respectful and modest in his heart. He takes care of his beloved white girl in every possible way. In the face of desire, he can restrain himself in time, like a Chinese gentleman. It is not easy to find such a full-fledged Chinese image in Western films where Asians are not well received, even in today's politically correct world. It would be too narrow-minded to feel offended just by looking at the hunched body and squinting eyes—the stereotype of Chinese people in the West at that time. This film actually gave me a reason to watch "The Birth of a Nation", because I really can't figure out why such a Griffith would be labeled as racist?
Sadye 2022-04-20 09:02:21

8. The beauty of the emperor, Luohuadian, passed away to Tangren Yepilin