Long-standing term used to describe the type of bowler has been quashed following call for it to be scrapped a year ago CRICKET bible Wisden has banned the term “chinaman”, to describe slow left-arm ...

The term “Chinaman” was commonly used for nearly a century in American society. It served a convenient, if invidious, purpose: to erase individuality or humanity from Chinese immigrants. Through ...

The book that Jackie Chan movie The Foreigner is based on was called The Chinaman, but producers changed the title for obvious reasons. While using the phrase “Chinaman” was relatively common when ...

“Why use a racial slur to describe a bowler’s action when â€⃜left-arm wrist-spinner’ is more descriptive anyway? We should stamp it out.†Thus read one of the several voices calling for abolition ...

Latest edition of Wisden Almanack has dropped the term â€⃜Chinaman’ from their list of bowling types. They have now replaced the term with slow left-arm wrist-spin (SLW), which was earlier called as ...

Chinamans Beach in the affluent area of Mosman has long been the centre of debate around the use of the “racist and derogatory” term Chinaman. Second-generation Chinese Australian Osmond Chiu is ...

Andrew Wu, a Sydney Morning Herald cricket writer, has just sparked a furious debate by demanding that cricket remove what he described as a racially offensive term. He raised a very valid question on ...

Georgetown University has been taking heat after one of its law professors used a racist term to call on a student—in front of an entire class. In a video that has since gone viral with more than ...

For decades, certain Chicagoans have been using a strange--even offensive--piece of slang that often involves the question: “Who’s Your Chinaman?” So where did this term come from? Why do we use it?