China and the Chinese in Popular Film: From Fu Manchu to Charlie Chan by Jeffrey Richards

China and the Chinese in Popular Film: From Fu Manchu to Charlie Chan

Cinema and Society

Jeffrey Richards

256 pages missing pub info (editions)

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There's a folk memory of China in which numberless yellow hordes pour out of the 'mysterious East' to overwhelm the vulnerable West, accompanied by a stereotype of the Chinese as cruel, cunning and depraved. Hollywood films played their part in pe...

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