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Table of Contents List of Illustrations v Acknowledgments vi Introduction PART I Hollywood Asians: From Actor to Spectator Chapter 1: Portrait of a Patriot's Son: Philip Ahn and Korean 23 Diasporic Identities in Hollywood Chapter 2: The Audience Who Knew Too Much: 71 Oriental Masquerade and Ethnic Recognition among Asian Americans PART II Oriental Genres, 1930s to 1950s Chapter 3: Between Yellowphilia and Yellowphobia: 110 Asian American Romance in Oriental Detective Films Chapter 4: State Intervention in the Imagining of Orientals 159 in China Films of the 1930s and 1940s Chapter 5: Hollywood Goes to Korea: 212 War, Melodrama, and the Biopic Politics of Battle Hymn Conclusion Chapter 6: Becoming "Father," Becoming Asian American 300 Filmography 335 Bibliography 341 List of Illustrations 1.1 Ahn family portrait 28 1.2 Philip Ahn portrait 29 1.3 Philip Ahn and Anna May Wong 32 1.4 Philip Ahn and Park Chung Hee 53 1.5 Philip Ahn's star on the Hollywood Boulevard 55 2.1 Rogues' Regiment (Universal, 1948) production still 91 2.2 I Spy (1967) frame enlargement 99 3.1 Daughter of Shanghai (Paramount, 1937) publicity still 114 3.2 Daughter of Shanghai production still 140 3.3 Daughter of Shanghai production still 145 3.4 Daughter of Shanghai production still 147 4.1 China Sky (RKO, 1945) production still 188 4.2 China Sky production still 189 4.3 China Sky production still 191 4.4 RKO star publicity card 202 5.1 Battle Hymn (Universal, 1957) production still 248 5.2 Battle Hymn production still 265 5.3 Battle Hymn production still 267 6.1 Philip Ahn holding his father's portrait 304 6.2 Kung Fu (Warner Bros., 1972-1975) production still 312
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Asians in motion pictures.
Asian Americans in motion pictures.
Motion pictures -- United States -- History.
Ahn, Philip, 1905-1978.