List of Illustrations
Introduction Map of the Hawaiian Islands
Prologue Chang Apana’s bullwhip
Part I Chang Apana, circa 1917
Chapter 2 Canton, China, late 1890s
Chapter 3 Chinatown, Honolulu, late 1890s
Chapter 4 A Chinese store in Chinatown, Honolulu, late 1890s
Chapter 5 Hawaiian Humane Society Seal
Chapter 6 Map of Chinatown, Honolulu, circa 1900
Chapter 6 Chinatown after the 1900 fire
Chapter 8 During the 1900 Chinatown fire, residents were evacuated under police direction
Part II Earl Derr Biggers at his Pasadena, California, house, late 1920s
Chapter 10 The Saxton House, Canton, Ohio
Chapter 11 The Signet House, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Chapter 12 Earl Derr Biggers, circa 1907
Chapter 13 J. A. Gilman residence, Honolulu, 1908
Part III Cover design for E. D. Bigger’s Behind the Curtain, 1928
Chapter 14 Bret Harte, “The Heathen Chinee,” 1870
Chapter 15 Boris Karloff in The Mask of Fu Manchu, 1932
Chapter 16 Cover design for E. D. Biggers’s The House Without a Key, 1925
Chapter 17 Chang Apana’s house, Kaimuki, Hawaii
Chapter 18 Earl Derr Biggers’s house, Pasadena, California
Chapter 19 Earl Derr Biggers with a stand-in Charlie Chan, July 1928
Chapter 19 Earl Derr Biggers and Chang Apana, July 5, 1928
Part IV Kamiyama Sojin as Charlie Chan in The Chinese Parrot, 1927
Chapter 20 Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Hollywood
Chapter 21 Warner Oland and Anna May Wong on the set of Old San Francisco, 1927
Chapter 22 Chang Apana and Warner Oland, Honolulu, 1931
Chapter 22 Wo Fat Restaurant, Chinatown, Honolulu
Chapter 23 Chang Apana, circa 1932
Chapter 24 Chang Apana and Chief Charles Weeber, 1932
Chapter 25 Warner Oland and Stepin Fetchit in Charlie Chan in Egypt, 1935
Part V Charlie Chan’s Bar, Sydney, Australia
Chapter 26 Chinese movie poster for Charlie Chan in Shanghai, 1936
Chapter 26 Movie poster for Charlie Chan Smashes an Evil Plot, 1941
Chapter 27 Sidney Toler, circa 1910
Chapter 28 Warner Oland in The Mysterious Dr. Fu-Manchu, 1929
Chapter 29 Warner Oland and his stand-in on the set, early 1930s
Epilogue Chang Apana’s grave at the Chinese Cemetery, Manoa, Hawaii
Epilogue The gravestone of Chang Apana
MAP OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS (Courtesy of Hawaiian State Archives)