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Author Lim, Shirley Jennifer, 1968- author.

Title Anna May Wong : performing the modern / Shirley Jennifer Lim
Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 246 pages)
Series Asian American history and culture
Asian American history and culture.
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed April 19, 2023)
Subject Wong, Anna May, 1905-1961.
SUBJECT Wong, Anna May, 1905-1961 fast
Subject Chinese American motion picture actors and actresses -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Entertainment & Performing Arts.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
Chinese American motion picture actors and actresses
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018050041
ISBN 9781439918357
143991835X