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elebratory and parodic. This is bined with a meticulous acknowledgement of the varied ethnic groups present in the western landscape. The Chinese, Mexicans, Irish and other historical protagonists of the west e to feature, alongside the reconstruction, in other Hollywood fictions, of the history of the American Indian, as guarantees of the historical authenticity of the western. It is in this context that the success of the eastern/western television series Kung Fu, in the early 1970s, can be located. This featured David Carradine as Kwai Chang Caine, a ChineseAmerican Shaolin priest who wanders about the old west. The idea for this series was partially triggered by the success of Hong Kong martialarts films in the west at that time. Images of an imagined Oriental culture and religion are fetishised in the show, the producers of which, as I have discussed elsewhere, refused to cast a C