Yunte Huang

writer. scholar. professor. etcetera

Reviews

"The rarest of treats: a work of exhaustively researched popular history that reads like a dime-store romance."

--Pico Iyer, Time

"One of the most entertaining, informative, and provocative books I have read in a long time."

--David Thomson, The New Republic

"A scintillating, provocative work of discovery, a voyage into racial stereotyping and humanizing force of storytelling."

--Donna Seaman, Los Angeles Times

"Capacious...Always entertaining...Very original, good humored, and passionately researched."

--Richard Schickel, New York Times

"Provocative and unique, Charlie Chan expands the yellowface debate with mischievous humor and a compelling sense of irony."

--Jessica Hagedorn

"Astute and engaging cultural history."

--Richard Bernstein, New York Review of Books

"A great delight...Bracing and expansive."

--Jill Lepore, The New Yorker

"A significant work of American history written in a stimulating and masterful way."

--Peter Kwong

"An absorbing study of art taking on a life of its own."

--Publishers Weekly