Hollywood Diplomacy Film Regulation, Foreign Relations, and East Asian Representations

"Deeply rooted in sound documentation and rigorous archival study but also imaginative and subtle in the interpretive work it accomplishes, Hollywood Diplomacy offers a fresh and vital account of the censorship and regulation that surrounds Asian and Asian American representation in film."- Ellen Scott, author of Cinema Civil Rights: Regulation, Repression, and Race in Classical Hollywood
"The book provides a new and fresh understanding of how policies, censorship, and the propaganda machine can influence screenwriters, directors, and production companies. A deft combination of history and textual analysis, Hollywood Diplomacy provides insight into how Hollywood has often wrongly represented East Asian people and then attempted to save face and money by editing out those problematic representations. Essential."- Choice
"Hollywood Diplomacy provides great contribution to scholarship not simply on Asian representation on film, but toward providing a much-needed book-length contribution toward better understanding the tensions between foreign censorship boards as well as the progression of Hollywood's foreign policy at large."- Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television
"The first comprehensive study of Hollywood's regulation of East Asian representation. A rigorously-researched and important illumination of the impact of politics, protest, and profit on Hollywood's representation of race."- Philippa Gates, author of Criminalization/Assimilation: Chinese/Americans and Chinatowns in Classical Hollywood Film