Chinese Diaspora on American Screens

Gina Marchetti is Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, at the University of Hong Kong.  In 1995, her book, Romance and the "Yellow Peril": Race, Sex and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction, won the award for best book in the area of cultural studies from the Association for Asian American Studies. Her recent books include: From Tian'anmen to Times Square:  Transnational China and the Chinese Diaspora on Global Screens and Chinese Connections: Critical Perspectives on Film, Identity, and Diaspora co-edited with Tan See-Kam, Peter X Feng (both Temple).

"In her new book, Gina Marchetti expands the boundaries of Asian and Asian American media scholarship by shifting the focus from that of fixed identities to that of the concept of diaspora... Marchetti's project [is] an intriguing and important one... An added bonus to the analyses are interviews with filmmakers and authors that give another perspective to the films. This book makes an excellent addition to the slowly growing body of important scholarship on Asian and Asian American media studies in that it exemplifies, in its own methods and assumptions, the open boundaries inherent to this field."--Journal of Asian Studies, August 2013

• Acknowledgements;; 1. Introduction: Race, Sex, and the Chinese Diaspora in American Film;; Part I In the Black Pacific; 2. Jackie Chan's Black Connections; Interview: Jeff Yang; 3. Interracial Romance in Action: Romeo Must Die; 4. Black in the Chinese Diaspora: Double-Consciousness in Yvonne Welbon's Remembering Wei Yi-fang, Remembering Myself; Interview: Yvonne Welbon;; Part II Sexuality, Gender and Generation in Diaspora; 5. Queering the Patriarchy: The Wedding Banquet, Toc Storee, and Dirty Laundry; Interview: Richard Fung; 6. Guests at the Wedding Banquet: The Joy Luck Club, Double Happiness, Siao Yu and Shopping for Fangs; Interview: Wayne Wang; 7. In Pursuit of Video Hapa-ness: Banana Split and Kip Fulbeck's Boyhood among Ghosts; Interview: Kip Fulbeck; Conclusion; 8. Screening the Chinese Diaspora in the New Millennium;; Endnotes; Bibliography; Filmography.