Arthur Dong's Asian American StoriesArthur Dong's Asian American Stories

Forbidden city, USA: Profiles the groundbreaking entertainers from the renowned all-Chinese Forbidden City Nightclub in 1940s San Francisco.
Hollywood Chinese: A look at the ways the Chinese have been imagined in the movies, from silent classics to contemporary blockbusters.
Sewing woman: Based on the life of Dong's mother, a bittersweet journey of one woman's determination to survive, from an arranged marriage in old China to the working class comforts of America.
The killing fields of Dr. Haing S. Ngor: Chronicles the journey of a Haing S. Ngor, a Cambodian doctor, from his imprisonment by the Khmer Rouge to a harrowing escape to America, and from his performance in The Killing Fields (1985) to his mysterious murder in Los Angeles Chinatown.