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Trailing the honorable "Chinese" detective: Charlie Chan scholar Yunte Huang
Trailing the honorable "Chinese" detective: Charlie Chan scholar Yunte Huang
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Length:
60 minutes
Released:
Dec 5, 2010
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Podcast episode
Description
Colin Marshall talks to Yunte Huang, poet, professor of English at UC Santa Barbara, and author of Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History. In the book, Huang combines a personal narrative of his research into American literature’s most beloved (and loathed) Chinese detective with the stories of E.D. Biggers, the writer who invented Charlie Chan, and Chang Apana, the real-life Chinese detective on the Honolulu Police whose exploits inspired him.
Released:
Dec 5, 2010
Format:
Podcast episode
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