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'''''[[green:Analysis]]''''': Ignoring the low/zero-context examples, practically every example I could find just amounts to "a launderer that is Chinese exists." Since this trope hasn't undergone Administrivia/TropeDecay, there's no real reason this can't be salvaged. My suggestion is to do a Administrivia/TropeTransplant by yarding the (currently vague) idea for "Chinese launderer stereotype" and keeping the original name as ChineseLaunderer (though making it plural might help).
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'''''[[green:Analysis]]''''': Ignoring the low/zero-context examples, practically every example I could find just amounts to "a launderer that is Chinese exists." exists", and even then some still teeteer the line. Since this trope hasn't undergone Administrivia/TropeDecay, there's no real reason this can't be salvaged. My suggestion is to do a Administrivia/TropeTransplant by yarding the (currently vague) idea for "Chinese launderer stereotype" and keeping the original name as ChineseLaunderer (though making it plural might help).
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So ChineseLaunderer is a bit overwhelming. Though it only has 95 wicks, the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=i1ds5340f5dal54uu803lkgx&trope=ChineseLaunderer YKTTW]] only had a brief mention of a single interconnected stereotype - the Wild West. However, the current description goes into outer gender-based Chinese stereotypes and has unwieldy comparisons to "dangerous foreigners", making it look more and more like a misplaced UsefulNotes page. Even the oldest suggestions in the link verge on being People Sit on Chairs, since there's no mentions of those stereotypes involved (even if they were to be condensed).
'''''[[green:Wick check]]''''': 50/50
'''''[[green:Analysis]]''''': Ignoring the low/zero-context examples, practically every example I could find just amounts to "a launderer that is Chinese exists." Since this trope hasn't undergone Administrivia/TropeDecay, there's no real reason this can't be salvaged. My suggestion is to do a Administrivia/TropeTransplant by yarding the (currently vague) idea for "Chinese launderer stereotype" and keeping the original name as ChineseLaunderer (though making it plural might help).
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[[folder:Correct examples- the stereotype(s) involved and general ignorance are mentioned/shown (7/50)]]
# Literature/TheTouch: When given a tour of her new husband's home, Elizabeth is embarrassed to learn that men will be doing her laundry, but she's quickly reassures that it's the custom.
# Music.GeorgeFormby: When Mr Wu first appeared — in "Chinese Laundry Blues" — he owned a laundry in Limehouse (a district of London where many Chinese immigrants settled in the 19th and early 20th centuries), although in the later songs he moved onto greater things.
# ValuesDissonance.WesternAnimation: At least four episodes of Disney's ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' had jokes which played off Chinese stereotypes. One of these that is remembered in a particularly poor light was a subplot in the series' FiveEpisodePilot, involving series BigBad Fat Cat seeking aid from a rival feline mob. Said mob was run by a pair of Siamese cats, [[ChineseLaunderer out of a dry-cleaning shop in Chinatown]] in which crowds of cats bet on cockfighting fish, everyone dressed in stereotypical silk clothes right out of YellowPeril media, and involved a lot of AsianSpeekeeEngrish. This was the late 80s and early 90s, the last time you could actually get away with this.
# Literature.AroundTheWorldInSeventyTwoDays: Bly praises "what Orientals can do in the washing line," and notes that six hours is enough for one to get a load of laundry back.
# Funny.WrongpuraeSlowbeefAndDiabetus: Given [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero Jack's earlier reaction to it]], the duo has a lot of trepidation as Jack walks in front of the Chinese Laundry multiple times, especially when its [[AsianStoreOwner very stereotypical]]-[[ChineseLaunderer looking owner]] comes out in front of it. [[HopeSpot After several close passes]], they eventually have to bite the bullet and talk to him, and it's just as [[ValuesDissonance racially questionable as you'd expect]], complete with [[AsianSpeekeeEngrish a voice]] Diabetus compares to that of a ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' character.
# IHaveMyWays (under Advertising): In an early 1970s ad a ChineseLaunderer is asked how he gets clothes so clean. "Shh. Ancient Chinese Secret." His wife shares the truth with us: they use Calgon.
# Funny.Poirot: Later Poirot wants to send the launderers a letter of complaint. His remarks to Miss Lemon indicate this is just one of many letters he's sent them about the same thing. Then Miss Lemon tells him why his shirts are still uncomfortable.
--> '''Miss Lemon:''' The trouble is, Mr. Poirot, they just don't understand the letters.
--> '''Poirot:''' Why not?
--> '''Miss Lemon:''' [[ChineseLaunderer They're Chinese]], Mr. Poirot.
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[[folder:Low-context (18/50)]]
# The entrance to ISIS in ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' is in an Indian laundry that features the same sort of employees and jokes as a Chinese laundry.
# Film.TheSandPebbles: And barber, and cook, and mechanic, and...
# Mr. Washy Washy from ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''.
# Monk.TropesAToE: Mrs. Ling in "Mr. Monk and the Twelfth Man". She actually likes Stewart Babcock more than Monk even though Stewart has killed twelve people.
# VideoGame.DesperadosIII: In Baton Rouge, there is Sam Wong's Laundry, fitting to the game's TheWildWest setting.
# Radio.TheGoonShow: Seagoon poses as one in "The Macreekie Rising of '74".
# Literature.TheLaundryFiles: The Laundry is so named because one of these once served as cover for its entrance.
# Literature.AppointmentWithFEAR: He seems to also serve food if you ask him to. This location was changed to a martial arts school in the mobile game version, seemingly to go for something less potentially offensive (although the 2018 reprint leaves it a Chinese laundry)
# Literature.FlowerDrumSong: The emcee at Sammy's club jokes about being one.
# VideoGame.LauraRow: One in the second game.
# Film.TheWarriorsWay: Yang takes over the laundry when he arrives in Lode, mainly because that's what everyone assumes he'll be good at. He actually has to learn how to do it from Lynne. '''They've seen him do manual labor before; this isn't really related to the stereotype, which the entry doesn't mention'''
# Film.BrokenTrail: Lung Hay.
# (On main page) Widow Twankey from various Pantomime versions of ''Aladdin''.
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[[folder:"Chinese launderers exist" (30/50)]]
# There's a Chinese launderer in ''WesternAnimation/WheelSquad'' but he doesn't show the typical stereotypes that come with the trope. He once taught martial arts on the side.
# Literature.ATreeGrowsInBrooklyn: Where Francie takes her father's shirts. See Inscrutable Oriental.
# Series.TheATeam: One of Hannibal's most-referenced comic disguises was that of an old-timey Chinese launderer.
# WesternAnimation.{{Minoriteam}}: Guess where the team meets?
# Recap.Daredevil2015S2E11380:
** EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: One of the gunmen guarding Madame Gao's [[ChineseLaunderer dry-cleaning front]] complains that another gunman's kid is playing with the clothes rack again. [[OhCrap Except the kid's at basketball.]]
# CrossesTheLineTwice.ParadisePD: Robby steals underpants from the [[ChineseLaunderer dry-cleaning]] wife of Ray the Asian, while she was wearing them. '''Haven't seen this show but it's clear that this belongs in the limited range I'm referring to lmao'''
# Creator.AvramDavidson: The title character of "The Deed of the Deft-Footed Dragon" is a Chinese man who has migrated to the US and is now employed in a laundry.
# ComicBook.LuckyLuke '''(he's just referred to as "Chinese Launderer" twice on the page'''):
** DiggingToChina: Played hilariously in ''The 20th Cavalry''.
--> '''Cavalryman:''' We DugTooDeep! We DugTooDeep!\\
'''Ming Foo:''' No, no, it's only me, honorable Ming Foo[[note]]the fort's ChineseLaunderer[[/note]].
# Characters.MyPlace: [Mrs Wong w]ashes clothes for wealthy folk.
# Anime.AppareRanman: Xiaoleng is the daughter of a couple of Chinese immigrants who own a laundry.
# Film.TheBowery: Swipes enjoys throwing rocks through the window of such an establishment.
# Creator.FattyArbuckle: Prominently featured in Fatty's Faithful Fido. Sure enough, someone falls through the roof and into the washtub of said laundry.
# Music.RuckaRuckaAli: Taken up to eleven in "I'm a Korean": apparently all of Asia is a dry cleaning store. Virtually every DJ Not Nice song references this one, too. '''Kind of on the fence about this one but there's no context to the other lyrics at current to tell if it's a stereotype in-universe. It actually is based on what I read, but the joke *seems* to be that that has no reason to be in the song anyway, so it should go under InterchangeableAsianCultures ideally'''
# Series.TheMunsters: In "Herman's Raise," Herman finds a job working for one of these after being fired from the parlor. [[StatusQuoIsGod It doesn't last long.]]
# Series.TVFunhouse: Mr. Wong, the owner of a dry cleaning business in the second "Wonderman" short.
# Recap.BonanzaS01E01: Hop Sing's cousin, Hop Ling, is one, and he helps Joe hide from his would-be captors late in the episode. Ling barely avoids being burned to death shortly afterwards when the bad guys — thinking Joe is inside a tent — toss a lantern inside, causing it to go up in a plume of flame.
# Recap.DoctorWhoS14E6TheTalonsOfWengChiang: {{Justified|Trope}} by being set in VictorianLondon. Mr. Sin smuggles himself in Litefoot's house inside a laundry basket. '''This is admittedly an episode full of stereotypes, but this is even indirectly mentioned in the entry as being the only one that isn't, which seems incidental'''
# Film.EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce: The Wang family is in the laundry business, a stereotypical occupation for Asian immigrants in America. '''It could be any family business; the writers just chose laundry incidentally because it makes the most sense-- laundry itself isn't important to the film'''
# Film.ModelShop: The place next the model shop is "Wing's Hand Laundry".
# MailOrderBride: An episode of ''Series/TheLoneRanger'' zigzags this: a ChineseLaunderer and his mail-order fiancee are very happy with each other, but a group of townspeople use increasingly nasty methods to try to break them up or even kill one or both of them: they are perfectly happy using the laundryman's services, but they don't want any children increasing the town population of Chinese(-American) people. '''Still incidental'''
# GratuitousForeignLanguage (Theatre folder): The ScreenToStageAdaptation of ''Film/ThoroughlyModernMillie'' has a version of "Mammy" sung in Mandarin Chinese. Oddly enough, the spoken language of the {{Chinese Launderer}}s is Cantonese. Or at least, it's supposed to be, but more often than not the actors mangle the words and pronunciation beyond recognition. '''same as above'''
# Film.TheAppleDumplingGang: At one point, the kids accidentally wreck a Chinese laundry as part of their penchant for getting in trouble.
# Film.MissMend: A Chinese launderer named Liu-Ka-Dzho gives Vivian a job after she's locked out with the rest of the factory workers.
# Literature.TheWesternMysteries: Virginia City is full of Chinese laundries, and Pinky tries to hide in one.
# Recap.LawAndOrderS18E4Bottomless: The Yee family's business.
# Literature.TheCricketInTimesSquare: The sign outside Sai Fong's store notes that he "also do hand laundry." '''His main role is as a storyteller so this is incidental, just like how his store is a general store'''
# Film.TheMysteryOfTheLeapingFish: The opium is being distributed out of a Chinese laundry downtown.
# Film.{{Speedy}}: One has a business in Pop's neighborhood. When the Badass Grandpas attack the mooks, the launderer charges into battle with a hot iron.
# YellowPeril (the description itself): In the UK, this trope drew inspiration from the Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, and the presence of Chinese workers (especially sailors and [[ChineseLaunderer launderers]]) in port cities like VictorianLondon. Across the pond in the US, this trope also drew inspiration from Chinese immigration--specifically, the mass migration of thousands of {{Chinese laborer}}s in the nineteenth century. This large movement led many Americans to mistakenly think of Chinese people (and by extension, [[InterchangeableAsianCultures all Asians]]) as mysterious and expansionist. The fact that the workers weren't allowed to integrate with whites and often couldn't speak English didn't help matters. It [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII later turned out]] [[UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar that it]] was ''Japan'' that was expansionist, and horrifically brutal doing so--China was in no shape for world domination at that point--but hindsight is 20/20. (Of course, in response to the new threat of UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan, the media promptly switched this trope around and started portraying "the Japs" as the new Yellow Peril, only to [[RedChina switch back to China]] during TheFifties.)
# ComicStrip.KrazyKat: Mock Duck '''(commented out by a wonky troper just over 8 years ago)'''
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'''''[[green:Wick check]]''''': 50/50
'''''[[green:Analysis]]''''': Ignoring the low/zero-context examples, practically every example I could find just amounts to "a launderer that is Chinese exists." Since this trope hasn't undergone Administrivia/TropeDecay, there's no real reason this can't be salvaged. My suggestion is to do a Administrivia/TropeTransplant by yarding the (currently vague) idea for "Chinese launderer stereotype" and keeping the original name as ChineseLaunderer (though making it plural might help).
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[[folder:Correct examples- the stereotype(s) involved and general ignorance are mentioned/shown (7/50)]]
# Literature/TheTouch: When given a tour of her new husband's home, Elizabeth is embarrassed to learn that men will be doing her laundry, but she's quickly reassures that it's the custom.
# Music.GeorgeFormby: When Mr Wu first appeared — in "Chinese Laundry Blues" — he owned a laundry in Limehouse (a district of London where many Chinese immigrants settled in the 19th and early 20th centuries), although in the later songs he moved onto greater things.
# ValuesDissonance.WesternAnimation: At least four episodes of Disney's ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' had jokes which played off Chinese stereotypes. One of these that is remembered in a particularly poor light was a subplot in the series' FiveEpisodePilot, involving series BigBad Fat Cat seeking aid from a rival feline mob. Said mob was run by a pair of Siamese cats, [[ChineseLaunderer out of a dry-cleaning shop in Chinatown]] in which crowds of cats bet on cockfighting fish, everyone dressed in stereotypical silk clothes right out of YellowPeril media, and involved a lot of AsianSpeekeeEngrish. This was the late 80s and early 90s, the last time you could actually get away with this.
# Literature.AroundTheWorldInSeventyTwoDays: Bly praises "what Orientals can do in the washing line," and notes that six hours is enough for one to get a load of laundry back.
# Funny.WrongpuraeSlowbeefAndDiabetus: Given [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero Jack's earlier reaction to it]], the duo has a lot of trepidation as Jack walks in front of the Chinese Laundry multiple times, especially when its [[AsianStoreOwner very stereotypical]]-[[ChineseLaunderer looking owner]] comes out in front of it. [[HopeSpot After several close passes]], they eventually have to bite the bullet and talk to him, and it's just as [[ValuesDissonance racially questionable as you'd expect]], complete with [[AsianSpeekeeEngrish a voice]] Diabetus compares to that of a ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' character.
# IHaveMyWays (under Advertising): In an early 1970s ad a ChineseLaunderer is asked how he gets clothes so clean. "Shh. Ancient Chinese Secret." His wife shares the truth with us: they use Calgon.
# Funny.Poirot: Later Poirot wants to send the launderers a letter of complaint. His remarks to Miss Lemon indicate this is just one of many letters he's sent them about the same thing. Then Miss Lemon tells him why his shirts are still uncomfortable.
--> '''Miss Lemon:''' The trouble is, Mr. Poirot, they just don't understand the letters.
--> '''Poirot:''' Why not?
--> '''Miss Lemon:''' [[ChineseLaunderer They're Chinese]], Mr. Poirot.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Low-context (18/50)]]
# The entrance to ISIS in ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' is in an Indian laundry that features the same sort of employees and jokes as a Chinese laundry.
# Film.TheSandPebbles: And barber, and cook, and mechanic, and...
# Mr. Washy Washy from ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''.
# Monk.TropesAToE: Mrs. Ling in "Mr. Monk and the Twelfth Man". She actually likes Stewart Babcock more than Monk even though Stewart has killed twelve people.
# VideoGame.DesperadosIII: In Baton Rouge, there is Sam Wong's Laundry, fitting to the game's TheWildWest setting.
# Radio.TheGoonShow: Seagoon poses as one in "The Macreekie Rising of '74".
# Literature.TheLaundryFiles: The Laundry is so named because one of these once served as cover for its entrance.
# Literature.AppointmentWithFEAR: He seems to also serve food if you ask him to. This location was changed to a martial arts school in the mobile game version, seemingly to go for something less potentially offensive (although the 2018 reprint leaves it a Chinese laundry)
# Literature.FlowerDrumSong: The emcee at Sammy's club jokes about being one.
# VideoGame.LauraRow: One in the second game.
# Film.TheWarriorsWay: Yang takes over the laundry when he arrives in Lode, mainly because that's what everyone assumes he'll be good at. He actually has to learn how to do it from Lynne. '''They've seen him do manual labor before; this isn't really related to the stereotype, which the entry doesn't mention'''
# Film.BrokenTrail: Lung Hay.
# (On main page) Widow Twankey from various Pantomime versions of ''Aladdin''.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:"Chinese launderers exist" (30/50)]]
# There's a Chinese launderer in ''WesternAnimation/WheelSquad'' but he doesn't show the typical stereotypes that come with the trope. He once taught martial arts on the side.
# Literature.ATreeGrowsInBrooklyn: Where Francie takes her father's shirts. See Inscrutable Oriental.
# Series.TheATeam: One of Hannibal's most-referenced comic disguises was that of an old-timey Chinese launderer.
# WesternAnimation.{{Minoriteam}}: Guess where the team meets?
# Recap.Daredevil2015S2E11380:
** EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: One of the gunmen guarding Madame Gao's [[ChineseLaunderer dry-cleaning front]] complains that another gunman's kid is playing with the clothes rack again. [[OhCrap Except the kid's at basketball.]]
# CrossesTheLineTwice.ParadisePD: Robby steals underpants from the [[ChineseLaunderer dry-cleaning]] wife of Ray the Asian, while she was wearing them. '''Haven't seen this show but it's clear that this belongs in the limited range I'm referring to lmao'''
# Creator.AvramDavidson: The title character of "The Deed of the Deft-Footed Dragon" is a Chinese man who has migrated to the US and is now employed in a laundry.
# ComicBook.LuckyLuke '''(he's just referred to as "Chinese Launderer" twice on the page'''):
** DiggingToChina: Played hilariously in ''The 20th Cavalry''.
--> '''Cavalryman:''' We DugTooDeep! We DugTooDeep!\\
'''Ming Foo:''' No, no, it's only me, honorable Ming Foo[[note]]the fort's ChineseLaunderer[[/note]].
# Characters.MyPlace: [Mrs Wong w]ashes clothes for wealthy folk.
# Anime.AppareRanman: Xiaoleng is the daughter of a couple of Chinese immigrants who own a laundry.
# Film.TheBowery: Swipes enjoys throwing rocks through the window of such an establishment.
# Creator.FattyArbuckle: Prominently featured in Fatty's Faithful Fido. Sure enough, someone falls through the roof and into the washtub of said laundry.
# Music.RuckaRuckaAli: Taken up to eleven in "I'm a Korean": apparently all of Asia is a dry cleaning store. Virtually every DJ Not Nice song references this one, too. '''Kind of on the fence about this one but there's no context to the other lyrics at current to tell if it's a stereotype in-universe. It actually is based on what I read, but the joke *seems* to be that that has no reason to be in the song anyway, so it should go under InterchangeableAsianCultures ideally'''
# Series.TheMunsters: In "Herman's Raise," Herman finds a job working for one of these after being fired from the parlor. [[StatusQuoIsGod It doesn't last long.]]
# Series.TVFunhouse: Mr. Wong, the owner of a dry cleaning business in the second "Wonderman" short.
# Recap.BonanzaS01E01: Hop Sing's cousin, Hop Ling, is one, and he helps Joe hide from his would-be captors late in the episode. Ling barely avoids being burned to death shortly afterwards when the bad guys — thinking Joe is inside a tent — toss a lantern inside, causing it to go up in a plume of flame.
# Recap.DoctorWhoS14E6TheTalonsOfWengChiang: {{Justified|Trope}} by being set in VictorianLondon. Mr. Sin smuggles himself in Litefoot's house inside a laundry basket. '''This is admittedly an episode full of stereotypes, but this is even indirectly mentioned in the entry as being the only one that isn't, which seems incidental'''
# Film.EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce: The Wang family is in the laundry business, a stereotypical occupation for Asian immigrants in America. '''It could be any family business; the writers just chose laundry incidentally because it makes the most sense-- laundry itself isn't important to the film'''
# Film.ModelShop: The place next the model shop is "Wing's Hand Laundry".
# MailOrderBride: An episode of ''Series/TheLoneRanger'' zigzags this: a ChineseLaunderer and his mail-order fiancee are very happy with each other, but a group of townspeople use increasingly nasty methods to try to break them up or even kill one or both of them: they are perfectly happy using the laundryman's services, but they don't want any children increasing the town population of Chinese(-American) people. '''Still incidental'''
# GratuitousForeignLanguage (Theatre folder): The ScreenToStageAdaptation of ''Film/ThoroughlyModernMillie'' has a version of "Mammy" sung in Mandarin Chinese. Oddly enough, the spoken language of the {{Chinese Launderer}}s is Cantonese. Or at least, it's supposed to be, but more often than not the actors mangle the words and pronunciation beyond recognition. '''same as above'''
# Film.TheAppleDumplingGang: At one point, the kids accidentally wreck a Chinese laundry as part of their penchant for getting in trouble.
# Film.MissMend: A Chinese launderer named Liu-Ka-Dzho gives Vivian a job after she's locked out with the rest of the factory workers.
# Literature.TheWesternMysteries: Virginia City is full of Chinese laundries, and Pinky tries to hide in one.
# Recap.LawAndOrderS18E4Bottomless: The Yee family's business.
# Literature.TheCricketInTimesSquare: The sign outside Sai Fong's store notes that he "also do hand laundry." '''His main role is as a storyteller so this is incidental, just like how his store is a general store'''
# Film.TheMysteryOfTheLeapingFish: The opium is being distributed out of a Chinese laundry downtown.
# Film.{{Speedy}}: One has a business in Pop's neighborhood. When the Badass Grandpas attack the mooks, the launderer charges into battle with a hot iron.
# YellowPeril (the description itself): In the UK, this trope drew inspiration from the Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, and the presence of Chinese workers (especially sailors and [[ChineseLaunderer launderers]]) in port cities like VictorianLondon. Across the pond in the US, this trope also drew inspiration from Chinese immigration--specifically, the mass migration of thousands of {{Chinese laborer}}s in the nineteenth century. This large movement led many Americans to mistakenly think of Chinese people (and by extension, [[InterchangeableAsianCultures all Asians]]) as mysterious and expansionist. The fact that the workers weren't allowed to integrate with whites and often couldn't speak English didn't help matters. It [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII later turned out]] [[UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar that it]] was ''Japan'' that was expansionist, and horrifically brutal doing so--China was in no shape for world domination at that point--but hindsight is 20/20. (Of course, in response to the new threat of UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan, the media promptly switched this trope around and started portraying "the Japs" as the new Yellow Peril, only to [[RedChina switch back to China]] during TheFifties.)
# ComicStrip.KrazyKat: Mock Duck '''(commented out by a wonky troper just over 8 years ago)'''
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