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Asian American Race, Class, Gender, And Television Action: Vanishing Son And Martial Law Although Asians and Asian Americans have been present on American television screens for decades, [1] few television series have featured Asian or Asian Americans in starring roles. Kung Fu (Warner Bros, ABC, 1972-1975), starring David Carradine as Kwai-Chang Caine, featured a white American actor as a bi-racial Shaolin priest in the Old West. Originally conceived as a vehicle for martial arts adept Bruce Lee, the series went to an actor with little physical ability, but with a knack for embodying a Hippie pacifism along with a reluctant, but devastating aggression On the lam from the law, Caine picked up where The Fugitive (1963-67) left off and added a topical resonance with the televised resistance to the war in Vietnam by living like a pacifist, draft-dodger as well as fighting guerilla-style like a Viet Cong, and, in all respects, getting the better of his Anglo-American opponents, while being white himself. Thus, Caine took the moral high ground as a Buddhist priest while embodying the anger of an entire generation. Twenty years later, Warner Bros revived the series as Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1993-1996) set in modern day California with a plotline involving the police. Ralph sammo, confucian, action, martial, son, television, series, chinese, american, vanishing, principles, jian-wa, law, kung, fu, family, episode, while, through, mirror, jake, images, each, asian, western, social, similarly, own, order, capitalism, both, society, role, ray, moral