Hye Seung Chung is an associate professor of film and media studies at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. She is the author of Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance and Kim Ki-duk, as well as the co-author of Movie Migrations: Transnational Genre Flows and South Korean Cinema.

"Deeply rooted in sound documentation and rigorous archival study but also imaginative and subtle in the interpretive work it accomplishes, Hollywood Diplomacy offers a fresh and vital account of the censorship and regulation that surrounds Asian and Asian American representation in film."— Ellen Scott, author of Cinema Civil Rights: Regulation, Repression, and Race in Classical Hollywood"The book provides a new and fresh understanding of how policies, censorship, and the propaganda machine can influence screenwriters, directors, and production companies. A deft combination of history and textual analysis, Hollywood Diplomacy provides insight into how Hollywood has often wrongly represented East Asian people and then attempted to save face and money by editing out those problematic representations. Essential."— Choice"Hollywood Diplomacy provides great contribution to scholarship not simply on Asian representation on film, but toward providing a much-needed book-length contribution toward better understanding the tensions between foreign censorship boards as well as the progression of Hollywood's foreign policy at large."— Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television"The first comprehensive study of Hollywood's regulation of East Asian representation. A rigorously-researched and important illumination of the impact of politics, protest, and profit on Hollywood's representation of race."— Philippa Gates, author of Criminalization/Assimilation: Chinese/Americans and Chinatowns in Classical Hollywood Film

• IntroductionPart I: Diplomatic Representations in Classical Hollywood1. Censorship as Cultural Resistance: The Chinese Government's "Uplift" of National Images in 1930s Hollywood2. Justified Patricide and (Im)Properly Directed Hatred: Regulating the Representations of Chinese and Japanese in Doolittle Raid Films3. Beyond Propaganda Model: The Pentagon as a Technical Advisor for Brainwashing Films of the Cold War EraPart II: The War on Terror, Contemporary Hollywood, and Its Global Discontents4. From Die Another Day to "Another Day": The Anti-007 Movement, Pan-Asian Nationalism, and Protests as Censorship5. The Interview as a Twenty-First-Century Great Dictator? Rethinking Film Regulation and Foreign Relations through the Sony CrisisConclusion: Chinese Censors Return to HollywoodAppendixAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

Hye Seung Chung is an associate professor of film and media studies at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. She is the author of Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance and Kim Ki-duk, as well as the co-author of Movie Migrations: Transnational Genre Flows and South Korean Cinema.

"Deeply rooted in sound documentation and rigorous archival study but also imaginative and subtle in the interpretive work it accomplishes, Hollywood Diplomacy offers a fresh and vital account of the censorship and regulation that surrounds Asian and Asian American representation in film."— Ellen Scott, author of Cinema Civil Rights: Regulation, Repression, and Race in Classical Hollywood"The book provides a new and fresh understanding of how policies, censorship, and the propaganda machine can influence screenwriters, directors, and production companies. A deft combination of history and textual analysis, Hollywood Diplomacy provides insight into how Hollywood has often wrongly represented East Asian people and then attempted to save face and money by editing out those problematic representations. Essential."— Choice"Hollywood Diplomacy provides great contribution to scholarship not simply on Asian representation on film, but toward providing a much-needed book-length contribution toward better understanding the tensions between foreign censorship boards as well as the progression of Hollywood's foreign policy at large."— Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television"The first comprehensive study of Hollywood's regulation of East Asian representation. A rigorously-researched and important illumination of the impact of politics, protest, and profit on Hollywood's representation of race."— Philippa Gates, author of Criminalization/Assimilation: Chinese/Americans and Chinatowns in Classical Hollywood Film

• IntroductionPart I: Diplomatic Representations in Classical Hollywood1. Censorship as Cultural Resistance: The Chinese Government's "Uplift" of National Images in 1930s Hollywood2. Justified Patricide and (Im)Properly Directed Hatred: Regulating the Representations of Chinese and Japanese in Doolittle Raid Films3. Beyond Propaganda Model: The Pentagon as a Technical Advisor for Brainwashing Films of the Cold War EraPart II: The War on Terror, Contemporary Hollywood, and Its Global Discontents4. From Die Another Day to "Another Day": The Anti-007 Movement, Pan-Asian Nationalism, and Protests as Censorship5. The Interview as a Twenty-First-Century Great Dictator? Rethinking Film Regulation and Foreign Relations through the Sony CrisisConclusion: Chinese Censors Return to HollywoodAppendixAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

Hye Seung Chung is an associate professor of film and media studies at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. She is the author of Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance and Kim Ki-duk, as well as the co-author of Movie Migrations: Transnational Genre Flows and South Korean Cinema.

"Deeply rooted in sound documentation and rigorous archival study but also imaginative and subtle in the interpretive work it accomplishes, Hollywood Diplomacy offers a fresh and vital account of the censorship and regulation that surrounds Asian and Asian American representation in film."— Ellen Scott, author of Cinema Civil Rights: Regulation, Repression, and Race in Classical Hollywood"The book provides a new and fresh understanding of how policies, censorship, and the propaganda machine can influence screenwriters, directors, and production companies. A deft combination of history and textual analysis, Hollywood Diplomacy provides insight into how Hollywood has often wrongly represented East Asian people and then attempted to save face and money by editing out those problematic representations. Essential."— Choice"Hollywood Diplomacy provides great contribution to scholarship not simply on Asian representation on film, but toward providing a much-needed book-length contribution toward better understanding the tensions between foreign censorship boards as well as the progression of Hollywood's foreign policy at large."— Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television"The first comprehensive study of Hollywood's regulation of East Asian representation. A rigorously-researched and important illumination of the impact of politics, protest, and profit on Hollywood's representation of race."— Philippa Gates, author of Criminalization/Assimilation: Chinese/Americans and Chinatowns in Classical Hollywood Film

• IntroductionPart I: Diplomatic Representations in Classical Hollywood1. Censorship as Cultural Resistance: The Chinese Government's "Uplift" of National Images in 1930s Hollywood2. Justified Patricide and (Im)Properly Directed Hatred: Regulating the Representations of Chinese and Japanese in Doolittle Raid Films3. Beyond Propaganda Model: The Pentagon as a Technical Advisor for Brainwashing Films of the Cold War EraPart II: The War on Terror, Contemporary Hollywood, and Its Global Discontents4. From Die Another Day to "Another Day": The Anti-007 Movement, Pan-Asian Nationalism, and Protests as Censorship5. The Interview as a Twenty-First-Century Great Dictator? Rethinking Film Regulation and Foreign Relations through the Sony CrisisConclusion: Chinese Censors Return to HollywoodAppendixAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex