Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. v Contents v
3. Part I. Hollywood’s Chinese America
4. 1. Introduction 3
5. 2. Yellow Peril, Protest, and an Orientalist Gaze: Hollywood’s Constructions of Chinese/Americans 18
6. Part II. Chinatown Crime
7. 3. Imperiled Imperialism: Tong Wars, Slave Girls, and Opium 53
8. 4. The Whitening of Chinatown: Action Cops and Upstanding Criminals 80
9. Part III. Chinatown Melodrama
10. 5. The Perils of Proximity: White Downfall in the Chinatown Melodrama 105
11. 6. Tainted Blood: White Fears of Yellow Miscegenation 128
12. Part IV. Chinese American Assimilation
13. 7. Assimilation and Tourism: Chinese American Citizens and Chinatown Rebranded 155
14. 8. Assimilating Heroism: The Chinese American as American Action Hero 183
15. 9. Epilogue 212
16. Filmography 215
17. Acknowledgments 231
18. Notes 233
19. Index 277