Anna May Wong
Subtitle: Performing the Modern
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781439918340
Subjects: Chinese americans; Motion picture actors and actresses
Description: "This critical cultural biography of Anna May Wong--a Chinese American actress who made close to sixty films, headlined theater and vaudeville productions, and had her own television show in 1951--examines Wong's life in order to gain an understanding of racial modernity and twentieth-century Western fantasies of China"--