Afterword:
Since Chinese Americans have been a relatively small minority for a number of generations, most Americans have formed their opinions of this group primarily through the mass media of publishing, film, and television. The individual character with the greatest early impact was Charlie Chan. He was the main character of four novels and forty-seven feature and serial films that remain in rerun and on cassette, making him a minor cultural icon especially during the first half of the twentieth century. The keilin would not fail to take Jack through Hollywood.
When the first Charlie Chan mystery novel appeared in 1925, written by a white author and set in Hawaii, he seemed to many people, including many Chinese Americans, to represent an improvement in the way white Americans depict
