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China and the Chinese in Popular Film - From Fu Manchu to Charlie Chan (Hardcover)
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China and the Chinese in Popular Film - From Fu Manchu to Charlie Chan (Hardcover)
Series: Cinema and Society
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Total price: R4,433
Discovery Miles: 44 330
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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 perpetuating these
myths and stereotypes that constituted 'The Yellow Peril'. Jeffrey
Richards examines in detail how and why they did it. He shows how
the negative image was embodied in recurrent cinematic depictions
of opium dens, tong wars, sadistic dragon ladies and corrupt
warlords and how, in the 1930s and 1940s, a countervailing positive
image involved the heroic peasants of The Good Earth and Dragon
Seed fighting against Japanese invasion in wartime tributes to the
West's ally, Nationalist China. The cinema's split level response
is also traced through the images of the ultimate Oriental villain,
the sinister Dr. Fu Manchu and the timeless Chinese hero, the
intelligent and benevolent detective Charlie Chan.Filling a
longstanding gap in Cinema and Cultural History, the book is
founded in fresh research into Hollywood's shifting representations
of China and its people.
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