Includes bibliographical references, filmography (pages 215-230), and index.
Contents:
Part I. Hollywood's Chinese America -- Yellow peril, protest, and an orientalist gaze: Hollywood's constructions of Chinese/Americans -- Part II. Chinatown crime -- Imperilled imperialism: Tong wars, slave girls, and opium -- The whitening of Chinatown: action cops and upstanding criminals -- Part III. Chinatown melodrama -- The perils of proximity: white downfall in the Chinatown melodrama -- Tainted blood: white fears of yellow miscegenation -- Part IV. Chinese American assimilation -- Assimilation and tourism: Chinese American citizens and Chinatown rebranded -- Assimilating heroism: the Chinese American as American action hero.
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