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Anna May Wong : performing the modern / Shirley Jennifer Lim.
Van Pelt Library PN2287.W56 L56 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lim, Shirley Jennifer, 1968- author.
- Series:
- Asian American history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wong, Anna May, 1905-1961.
- Wong, Anna May.
- Chinese American motion picture actors and actresses--Biography.
- Chinese American motion picture actors and actresses.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Anna May Wong in Los Angeles
- 'Speaking German like nobody's business': Anna May Wong in Berlin
- American moderns in Europe: Anna May Wong and Josephine Baker
- 'I can play any type of Oriental': Anna watches Josephine at the Casino de Paris, 1932
- Glamourous American moderns: Anna May Wong and Lupe Velez
- My China film
- Anna May Wong in Australia
- Epilogue: Bold journey, native land.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Lim, Shirley Jennifer, 1968- author. Anna May Wong
- ISBN:
- 9781439918333
- 1439918333
- 9781439918340
- 1439918341
- OCLC:
- 1050362551
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