Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History. Yunte Huang, Yunte Huang

Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History

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ISBN: 9781631495816 | 400 pages | 10 Mb

Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History
Yunte Huang, Yunte Huang
Page: 400
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ISBN: 9781631495816
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation

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One of the Atlantic's "Books to Get Lost in This Summer" One of InsideHook's Best Books of August 2023 A trenchant reclamation of the Chinese American movie star, whose battles against cinematic exploitation and endemic racism are set against the currents of twentieth-century history. Born into the steam and starch of a Chinese laundry, Anna May Wong (1905–1961) emerged from turn-of-the-century Los Angeles to become Old Hollywood’s most famous Chinese American actress, a screen siren who captivated global audiences and signed her publicity photos—with a touch of defiance—“Orientally yours.” Now, more than a century after her birth, Yunte Huang narrates Wong’s tragic life story, retracing her journey from Chinatown to silent-era Hollywood, and from Weimar Berlin to decadent, prewar Shanghai, and capturing American television in its infancy. As Huang shows, Wong’s rendezvous with history features a remarkable parade of characters, including a smitten Walter Benjamin and (an equally smitten) Marlene Dietrich. Challenging the parodically racist perceptions of Wong as a “Dragon Lady,” “Madame Butterfly,” or “China Doll,” Huang’s biography becomes a truly resonant work of history that reflects the raging anti-Chinese xenophobia, unabashed sexism, and ageism toward women that defined both Hollywood and America in Wong’s all-too-brief fifty-six years on earth.

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