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Title: Respect For Charlie Chan
Review: Readers of detective/mystery fiction will enjoy Charlie Chan: Five Complete Novels. Those of us who knew only the movies (and felt slightly guilty about them)will be surprised by the intricate plotting and credible characterizations. I gained a deeper appreciation of Biggers'writing, who was quite popular in his day. I recommend that readers first turn to Yunte Huang's appreciation in his new nonfiction work, Charlie Chan: The Untold Story. He completely dispels the notion that Charlie is a racial stereotype. Huang does a wonderful job weaving together the fictional Charlie, the real life Chang Apana, Earl Derr Biggers, and Hollywood.
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