The Chinese Diaspora on American Screens: Race, Sex, and Cinema

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Contents list of illustrations vii Acknowledgments xi 1 introduction: race, sex, and the Chinese Diaspora in American Film 1 PART I In the Black Pacific 2 Jackie Chan’s Black Connections 19 interview: Jeff yang 59 3 interracial romance in Action: Romeo Must Die 66 4 Black in the Chinese Diaspora: Double-Consciousness in yvonne Welbon’s Remembering Wei Yi-fang, Remembering Myself 80 interview: yvonne Welbon 97 PART II Sex, Gender, and Generation in Diaspora 5 Queering the patriarchy: The Wedding Banquet, Toc Storee, and Dirty Laundry 105 interview: richard Fung 139 6 Guests at the Wedding Banquet: The Joy Luck Club, Double Happiness, Siao Yu, and Shopping for Fangs 144 interview: Wayne Wang 168 vi Contents 7 in pursuit of video Hapa-ness: Banana Split and Kip Fulbeck’s Boyhood among Ghosts 172 interview: Kip Fulbeck 188 8 Conclusion: screening the Chinese Diaspora in the new millennium 194 Appendix: Filmography 201 notes 205 Bibliography 227 index 239 ...