Hailed as #xE2;#x80;#x9C;irrepressibly spirited and entertaining#xE2;#x80;#x9D; (Pico Iyer, Time) and #xE2;#x80;#x9C;a fascinating cultural survey#xE2;#x80;#x9D; (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 #xE2;#x80;#x9C;honorable detective#xE2;#x80;#x9D; from the graveyard of detested postmodern symbols and reclaims him as the embodiment of America#xE2;#x80;#x99;s rich cultural diversity. The result is one of the most critically acclaimed books of the year and a #xE2;#x80;#x9C;deeply personal . . . voyage into racial stereotyping and the humanizing force of story telling#xE2;#x80;#x9D; (Donna Seaman, Los Angeles Times).