本书选用后殖民主义理论的视角，从“华人形象的文化再现、文化再现背后的电影话语机制以及对这一时期的文化再现从学术研究的角度提出质疑”这三个层面对论题进行了研究。通过探讨与论题密切相关的华人形象在美国主流文化中作为少数族话语、异国情调、边缘性及他者的问题，作者旨在探究好莱坞电影文化中再现出来的中美文化之间的冲突、矛盾以及融合，从而为两种不同文化之间的交流和对话提供必要的前提和基础。

全书以英文的形式呈现。

本书选用后殖民主义理论的视角，从三个层面对论题进行了研究：一是华人形象的文化再现，二是文化再现背后的电影话语机制，三是对这一时期的文化再现从学术研究的角度提出质疑。通过探讨与论题密切相关的华人形象在美国主流文化中作为少数族话语、异国情调、边缘性及他者的问题，作者旨在探究好莱坞电影文化中再现出来的中美文化之间的冲突、矛盾以及融合，从而为两种不同文化之间的交流和对话提供必要的前提和基础。

Chapter 1 Chineseness, Hollywood Discourse and

      Cinematic Apparatus 

  1.1 The Stereotype and the Hollywood Discourse

  1.2 Methodology

  1.3 Structure

  1.4 Selection

Chapter 2 Literature Review

  2.1 Posteolonialism

  2.2 Orientalism

  2.3 Culture & Imperialism

  2.4 Feminism

  2.5 Representation

  2.6 Cine-semiology

Chapter 3 The Myth of Violence and the Other

      "Chinaman"

  3.1 Visual Spectacle and the Violent" Oriental" 

  3.2 The" Deadly Ballet" and that Legendary Bruce Lee

  3.3 Comedy Kung Fu and Comical Jackie Chan

  3.4 Monsters, Aliens, and Trauma on the Transnational

   Scene

 3.4.1 Contrasting and Foiling the White Hero

 3.4.2 Killing Innocent People with Excellent Kung Fu

 3.4.3 The Ethical & Remediable Killer

Chapter 4 Irresistible Seduction and Inscrutable

      "China Lady"

  4.1 A Matter of Marginality and "White Supremacist

   Capitalist Patriarchy" 

  4.2 The "Unbearably Cute but Silly" China Doll

  4.3 The Externally Arrogant but Internally Fragile

   "Connie Chueng"

  4.4 The Anti-Orientalist Transvestite" Seductive Spy" 

Chapter 5 The Other Speaks: Wayne Wang's Films in

      Hollywood Cinema

  5.1 Chan Is Missing or Chinese Missing

  5.2 Re-Defining Cultural Identity in Dim Sum:

   A Little Bit of Heart

  5.3 Decoding Cultural Connotations in The Joy Luck

  5.4 Conclusion: "Articulating a Voice of Our Own"

Chapter 6 Conclusion:" Can One Know the Other?"

Appendix 1 Films with Chinese Male Characters

       ( 1960 ~ 1999)

Appendix 2 Films with Chinese Female Characters

       ( 1960 ~ 1999)

Appendix 3 Important Films about Chineseness

       (1960 ~ 1999)

Appendix 4 Movies Relevant to Bruce Lee

       ( 1960 ~ 1999)

Appendix 5 Minor Roles of Chinese in Hollywood Films

       ( 1960 ~ 1999)

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