Model Failure: Rewriting Asian American Affluence Through Reality Television
Published online on April 20, 2026
Abstract
Television & New Media, Ahead of Print.
The rise in reality television docusoaps featuring affluent Asian Americans builds from longstanding assumptions of Asian American economic prosperity, capitalizing on the success of the 2018 feature filmCrazy Rich Asians. Yet the genre of docusoaps ...
The rise in reality television docusoaps featuring affluent Asian Americans builds from longstanding assumptions of Asian American economic prosperity, capitalizing on the success of the 2018 feature filmCrazy Rich Asians. Yet the genre of docusoaps ...