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* In Barry Eisler's ''John Rain'' series, the title character is a half-white, half-Japanese American who uses plastic surgery and hair dye to look fully Asian.

* In the [[Romance Novel]] ''Desire's Blossom'', a redheaded Caucasian heroine Letitia is captured by the Chinese as a little girl and made up to look Chinese by them. [http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/index.php/weblog/comments/desires_blossom_by_cassie_edwards/ In the snarky words of reviewer Candy (who herself is Chinese)]:

{{quote| Chinese Big-Wig Dude, instead of turning her over to the authorities, is all "Hey! I have a GREAT idea! Let's totally adopt [Letitia], only not really, and not only that, let's totally treat her like shit AND make her appear Chinese." Which involves renaming her to Lee-Lee, dyeing her hair black, powdering her face (because Chinese people are PALER than you round-eyed types, yeah?) and—I shit you not—binding her breasts once she hits puberty so she looks more flat-chested. Because her bodacious bazooms are not nearly Chinese enough.}}

{{quote|Chinese Big-Wig Dude, instead of turning her over to the authorities, is all "Hey! I have a GREAT idea! Let's totally adopt [Letitia], only not really, and not only that, let's totally treat her like shit AND make her appear Chinese." Which involves renaming her to Lee-Lee, dyeing her hair black, powdering her face (because Chinese people are PALER than you round-eyed types, yeah?) and—I shit you not—binding her breasts once she hits puberty so she looks more flat-chested. Because her bodacious bazooms are not nearly Chinese enough.}}

* In ''[[You Only Live Twice]]'', [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] is disguised (very unconvincingly) as a Japanese man.

* ''[[Sherlock Holmes a Game of Shadows]]'' has Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes disguising himself as a 19th century Chinese man complete with queue and giant opium pipe.