Charlie Chan The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History 1st edition by Yunte 0393340392 9780393340396

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ISBN 10: 0393340392
ISBN 13: 9780393340396

Author: Yunte 

Winner of the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Book Shortlisted for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography Named One of Esquire’s 50 Best Biographies of All Time “An ingenious and absorbing book…It will permanently change the way we tell this troubled yet gripping story.” —Jonathan Spence Hailed as “irrepressibly spirited and entertaining” (Pico Iyer, Time) and “a fascinating cultural survey” (Paul Devlin, Daily Beast), this provocative first biography of Charlie Chan presents American history in a way that it has never been told before. Yunte Huang ingeniously traces Charlie Chan from his real beginnings as a bullwhip-wielding detective in territorial Hawaii to his reinvention as a literary sleuth and Hollywood film icon. Huang finally resurrects the “honorable detective” from the graveyard of detested postmodern symbols and reclaims him as the embodiment of America’s rich cultural diversity. The result is one of the most critically acclaimed books of the year and a “deeply personal . . . voyage into racial stereotyping and the humanizing force of story telling” (Donna Seaman, Los Angeles Times).

Table of contents:

Introduction

Prologue

PART ONE THE “REAL” CHARLIE CHAN

1 Sandalwood Mountains

2 Canton

3 Paniolo, the Hawaiian Cowboy

4 The Wilders of Waikiki

5 “Book ’em, Danno!”

6 Chinatown

7 The See Yup Man

8 Desperadoes

9 Double Murder

PART TWO CHARLIE CHAN’S POP

10 The Other Canton

11 Lampoon

12 The Raconteur

13 The House Without a Key

PART THREE CHARLIE CHAN, THE CHINAMAN

14 The Heathen Chinee

15 Fu Manchu

16 Charlie Chan, the Chinaman

17 Kaimuki

18 Pasadena

19 A Meeting of East and West

PART FOUR CHARLIE CHAN AT THE MOVIES

20 Hollywood’s Chinoiserie

21 Yellowface

22 Between the Real and the Reel

23 Rape in Paradise

24 The Black Camel

25 Racial Parables

PART FIVE CHARLIE CHAN CARRIES ON

26 Charlie Chan in China

27 Charlie Chan Soldiers On

28 The Fu Manchurian Candidate

29 Will the Real Charlie Chan Please Stand Up?

Epilogue

Appendix I: A List of Charlie Chanisms

Appendix II: A List of Charlie Chan Films

Acknowledgments

Notes

Selected Bibliography

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