Awards

• Commended for New York Times Notable Selection 2010
• Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Award 2010
• Shortlisted for National Book Critics Circle Awards 2010.
• Winner of California Book Award 2010
• Winner of Edgar Allan Poe Awards: Best Young Adult Mystery 2011
• Winner of Edgar Allan Poe Awards: Best Young Adult Mystery 2011.
• Winner of Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award 2011
• Winner of National Book Critics Circle Awards 2016
• Winner of National Book Critics Circle Awards 2016.
• Winner of New York Times Notable Book 2010.

Overview

Hailed as ""irrepressibly spirited and entertaining"" (Pico Iyer, Time) and ""a fascinating cultural survey"" (Paul Devlin, Daily Beast), this provocative first biography of Charlie Chan presents American history in a way that it has never been told before. Yunte Huang ingeniously traces Charlie Chan from his real beginnings as a bullwhip-wielding detective in territorial Hawaii to his reinvention as a literary sleuth and Hollywood film icon. Huang finally resurrects the ""honorable detective"" from the graveyard of detested postmodern symbols and reclaims him as the embodiment of America's rich cultural diversity. The result is one of the most critically acclaimed books of the year and a ""deeply personal . . . voyage into racial stereotyping and the humanizing force of story telling"" (Donna Seaman, Los Angeles Times).

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A significant work of American history written in a stimulating and masterful way. Most impressive is Yunte Huang s ability to create a nuanced cultural and racial history out of the fictional Charlie Chan.--Peter Kwong, author of The New Chinatown

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Yunte Huang, a Guggenheim Fellow, has taught at Harvard and the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is a Distinguished Professor of English. The author of the Edgar Award–winning biography Charlie Chan and Inseparable, both NBCC finalists, Huang speaks frequently about American popular culture.

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