This book examines the paradox of China and the United States¿ literary and visual relationships, morphing between a happy duet and a contentious duel in fiction, film, poetry, comics, and opera from both sides of the Pacific. In the 21^st century where tension between the two superpowers escalates, a gaping lacuna lies in the cultural sphere of Sino-Anglo comparative cultures. By focusing on a ¿Sinophone-Anglophone¿ relationship rather than a ¿China-US¿ one, Sheng-mei Ma eschews realpolitik, focusing on the two languages and the cross-cultural spheres where, contrary to Kipling¿s twain, East and West forever meet, like a repetition compulsion bordering on neurosis over the self and its cultural other. Indeed, the coupling of the twöduet-cum-duel¿is so predictable that each seems attracted to and repulsed by its dark half, semblable, (in)compatible for their shared larger-than-life-ness.

1. Sino-Anglo-Euro Wolf Fan(g)s from Jiang Rong to Annaud.- 2. To Anglicize and Angelize the Rape of Nanking.- 3. Asiatic Aspie: Millennial (ab)Use of Asperger's Syndrome.- 4. 
Turandot
: The Chinese Box by Puccini, Zeffirelli, Zhang, and Chen.- 5. Speaking (of the) Dragon: Slain by the West, Ridden by the East.- 6. Asian Inscrewtability in Hollywood.- 7. Gene Luen Yang's Graphic Bi-Bye to China/town.- 8. Asian Birthright and Anglo Bequest in Chang-rae Lee and Bich Minh Nguyen.- 9. On Sci-Fi's Good China, Bad China: Maureen F. McHugh and Chang-rae Lee.- 10. Fed (up) with Gyoza and Vodka: 
Oldboy
's Forbidden Fruit of Alterity.- 11. Noodle Western: Asian Gunslingers, Swordplayers, Filmmakers Gone West.- 12. Millennial Taiwan Food Films: Naming and Epicurean Cure.

Sheng-mei Ma
is Professor of English at Michigan State University, USA, specializing in Asian Diaspora and East-West comparative studies. His books in English include:
The Last Isle
(2015);
Alienglish
(2014);
Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity
(2012);
Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture
(2011);
East-West Montage
(2007);
The Deathly Embrace
(2000); and
Immigrant Subjectivities in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Literatures
(1998).