Charlie Chan. The Untold Story Of The Honorable Detective And His Rendevouz With American History

YUNTE HUANG

Publication: W W Norton & Company, 2010, New York

First edition. As new, unread copy in dust jacket. In a dust jacket promotional blurb Stephen Greenblatt says "Yunte Huang's gripping 'Charlie Chan' is an exploration of the celebrated Chinese detective of popular fiction and film. Himself a brilliant sleuth, Huang follows a trail of clues that leads to Honolulu and the deeply impressive career of Chang Apana, the Chinese-born detective on whom the character was based. From here the story fans out to encompass a great swath of the social and literary cultures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the tangled experience of Asian immigration to the United States, and the tormented history of American race relations. Huang writes with rare personal intensity and capricious intelligence."

Inventory Number: 39680