Frontmatter
v Contents
Part I. Hollywood's Chinese America
1. Introduction
2. Yellow Peril, Protest, and an Orientalist Gaze: Hollywood's Constructions of Chinese/Americans
Part II. Chinatown Crime
3. Imperiled Imperialism: Tong Wars, Slave Girls, and Opium
4. The Whitening of Chinatown: Action Cops and Upstanding Criminals
Part III. Chinatown Melodrama
5. The Perils of Proximity: White Downfall in the Chinatown Melodrama
6. Tainted Blood: White Fears of Yellow Miscegenation
Part IV. Chinese American Assimilation
7. Assimilation and Tourism: Chinese American Citizens and Chinatown Rebranded
8. Assimilating Heroism: The Chinese American as American Action Hero
9. Epilogue
Filmography
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index