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Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective And His Rendezvous With American History

Yunte Huang

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#1836 of 3,809 books · #629 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (2010).

Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective And His Rendezvous With American History won the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Book and was named one of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time. 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.

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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13
9780393079166
Topics
Charlie Chan and cultural historyRace and stereotyping in AmericaHollywood and detective fiction

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