The role of Hong Kong in both their stories is notable, one that recalls the colonial gov's willingness to take in Vietnamese refugees (however awful the conditions were), and on the freedoms that helped Hong Kong's film industry flourish in the 1980s.
Michelle Yeoh & Ke Huy Quan tonight highlight the fact that the Asian-American experience is not a monolith and cannot be defined by one country. A Malaysian-Chinese woman, a Vietnamese-American who lived in a refugee camp in HK: there are nuances and layers to their identities twitter.com/Variety/status…