Books by Yunte Huang and Complete Book Reviews
Yunte Huang, Norton, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-393-06962-4
The fictional Chinese-American detective and his real-life model anchor this enjoyable if unfocused meditation on the cultural construction of race. English prof Huang (Transpacific Imaginations) recounts the life of Chang Apana, a Chinese immigrant
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Yunte Huang. Liveright, $28.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-87140-447-3
Guggenheim Fellow Huang (Charlie Chan) offers a fresh perspective on the lives of the famous conjoined twins, Chang and Eng Bunker, that focuses on two 19th-century trends: Americans’ celebration of white individualism and their desire for...
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Yunte Huang. Liveright, $30 (400p) ISBN 978-1-63149-580-9
Huang (Inseparable), an English professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, concludes his Rendezvous with America trilogy with a vital account of the life of Anna May (née Liu Tsong) Wong (1905–1961), the first Chinese American movie...
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