S2 E3: Daniel York Loh // RizTest Podcast The RizTest Podcast

Hey hey Mary J ✊🏽

We’re back after a hiatus working on personal projects (both of us dabbling in a bit of writing on the forthcoming book, I Refuse To Condemn – edited by the talented Asim Qureshi) with a brand new episode. We’re chuffed to bits to be able to finally sit down (virtually) in this new socially isolated world with our guest Daniel York Loh. We discuss his start in the theatre, writing productions such as The Fu Manchu Complex which challenges the 'Yellow Peril' racist stereotype and talk through early years breaking into the film industry. We have an awesome wide ranging conversation that covers:


The Hounslow Art Collective and Parv Bancil’s influence on his career
The term ‘Ethnic Drag’, performing your ethnicity as opposed to acting
‘Chinese’ being a problematic term
Pan Asian Identities
The Oriental Stereotype and Orientalist white gaze
Founding BEATS and The ‘Living with the Lams’ controversy
Stereotypes of the ‘Model Minority’
Crazy Rich Asians being a significant yet problematic milestone
The Rep Sweats
And of course we end with the Question Time Guy

You can follow Daniel on Twitter at @danielfyork