{"id":33466,"date":"2026-03-05T20:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/?p=33466"},"modified":"2026-02-27T17:23:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:23:34","slug":"colliding-asias-crazy-rich-asians-as-novel-film-adaptation-and-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2026\/03\/05\/colliding-asias-crazy-rich-asians-as-novel-film-adaptation-and-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"Colliding Asias (Crazy Rich Asians as Novel, Film, Adaptation, and Singapore)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\"> Crazy Rich Asians<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\"> film, which premiered in August 2018, was a watershed moment for the representation of Asian stories in Hollywood. Based on the bestselling 2013 novel by Singaporean author Kevin Kwan, the film adaptation quickly became a global phenomenon, marking a shift in the landscape of mainstream cinema, where Asian stories and voices were traditionally underrepresented or relegated to harmful stereotypes. While the film garnered immense success and attention, it also faced scrutiny for its portrayal of Asian characters.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">In \u201cColliding Asias \u2014 Crazy Rich Asians as Novel, Film, Adaptation, and Singapore\u201d, a chapter in <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">The Routledge Companion to Global Literary Adaptation in the Twenty-First Century<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\"> (Routledge, 2023), Dr Edna Lim (NUS English, Linguistics and Theatre Studies) examines<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\"> Crazy Rich Asians <\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">as a film adaption in its own right, rather than its relationship with the novel. Through what she terms as the \u201ccollision of Asias\u201d, Lim examines the intersection of different Asian identities and perspectives in the<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\"> Crazy Rich Asians<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\"> film, and how the film constitutes a wholly different performance of the<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\"> Crazy Rich Asians<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\"> story.\u202f<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Crazy Rich Asians<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\"> has elicited a range of incongruous responses, with some lauding it as a breakthrough Hollywood production featuring an all-Asian cast while others argue that it prioritised mainstream Hollywood tropes over opportunities for cultural commentary. For example, the film has been accused for its lack of authenticity in representing Singapore, Singaporeans and other \u201cmainland\u201d Asians. However, in her article, Lim contends that the Asian experience is exceedingly diverse and heterogeneous, making it challenging for the film to represent all the aspects of an \u201cAsian\u201d identity.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">While the novel\u2019s characters are predominantly Singaporeans, the film features pan-Asian actors such as Ken Jeong and Michelle Yeoh, who are more closely aligned with Hollywood and the West. Additionally, unlike the narration in the novel which follows multiple characters and perspectives, the film centres its storytelling around the experiences of the main character, Rachel. This aligns with Hollywood\u2019s convention of a single protagonist which consequently minimises the roles played by other characters in the film.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Notably, the film diverges from the novel in its language use. Unlike the novel where Singlish is used to demarcate characters as Singaporean regardless of their background, and to poke fun of the British accents used by \u201celite\u201d class as snobbish and ostentatious, the film\u2019s director, Jon M. Chu, made a deliberate choice to minimise the use of Singlish. In the film, the lack of Singlish and use of Standard English in a range of accents like British, American, and Australian, is central to its performance of Singapore as a distinctly international and globalised Singapore populated with Westernised pan-Asians. As such, the use of language further differentiates the film adaptation from its source, underscoring Chu\u2019s vision to present a more globally accessible narrative.\u202f<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Overall, Dr Lim\u2019s exploration of<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\"> Crazy Rich Asians<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\"> as a film adaptation sheds light on the complexities of the representation of diverse Asian identities in mainstream cinema.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Read the chapter <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4324\/9781003038368-23\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">here<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33467\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33467\" style=\"width: 2123px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33467 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/06\/iStock-649253686-e1717864175499.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2123\" height=\"1194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/06\/iStock-649253686-e1717864175499.jpg 2123w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/06\/iStock-649253686-e1717864175499-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/06\/iStock-649253686-e1717864175499-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/06\/iStock-649253686-e1717864175499-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/06\/iStock-649253686-e1717864175499-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/06\/iStock-649253686-e1717864175499-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2123px) 100vw, 2123px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: iStock\/tawatchaiprakobkit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Crazy Rich Asians film, which premiered in August 2018, was a watershed moment for the representation of Asian stories in Hollywood. Based on the bestselling 2013 novel by Singaporean author Kevin Kwan, the film adaptation quickly became a global phenomenon, marking a shift in the landscape of mainstream cinema, where Asian stories and voices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":33467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4547,4529,4606,4609,4571,4604],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-language-and-literature","category-news","category-research","category-singapore-research-nexus","category-theatre-studies","category-visible"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Colliding Asias (Crazy Rich Asians as Novel, Film, Adaptation, and Singapore) - Singapore Research Nexus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2026\/03\/05\/colliding-asias-crazy-rich-asians-as-novel-film-adaptation-and-singapore\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Colliding Asias (Crazy Rich Asians as Novel, Film, Adaptation, and Singapore) - Singapore Research Nexus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Crazy Rich Asians film, which premiered in August 2018, was a watershed moment for the representation of Asian stories in Hollywood. 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