The Pixar movie Turning Red, which takes place in the early 2000s, is about a 13-year-old Chinese-Canadian girl, Meilin (or Mei) Lee, who’s an only child and who’s desperate to please her mother all the time (and sometimes at the expense of her friendships); and from research that I’ve done, it seems like this desire to please is not uncommon in Mei’s culture.  One day, Mei wakes up to find that she has turned into a giant fluffy red panda!  It turns out that a family curse (which was once a gift) has every female in her family transform into a red panda once they come of age (or start…