After Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now (with Phil Yu and Philip Wang), Jeff Yang turns his focus to the history of Hollywood productions featuring Asians in the captivating The Golden Screen.
Readers will likely have heard of hits like The Joy Luck Club and Everything Everywhere All at Once, which won an Oscar for Best Picture, but Yang's book covers more than 100 additional films that are seminal in their own ways: 1986's A Great Wall, for instance, was the first American movie permitted to shoot in mainland China. The book also features conversations with stars such as Kelly Marie Tran and Kal Penn, and vibrant artwork by Asian illustrators, who reimagine posters of such popular movies as The Goonies by putting the Asian characters front and center--instead of near the margins. --Elyse Dinh-McCrillis, reviewer and freelance editor at The Edit Ninja