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Daughter of the dragon : Anna May Wong's rendezvous with American history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Huang, Yunte (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2023].
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Wong, Anna May, > 1905-1961.
Asian Americans in the motion picture industry.
Chinese American motion picture actors and actresses > Biography.
Xenophobia in motion pictures.
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Part one. Fun in a Chinese laundry
  • Year of the dragon
  • Chinatown
  • The laundryman
  • Fun in a Chinese laundry
  • Anna
  • Curious Chinese child
  • part two. Becoming Anna May
  • The red lantern
  • Anna May
  • Madame Butterfly in technicolor
  • Hollywood Babylon
  • The thief of Bagdad
  • Her own company
  • Vaudeville
  • 1927
  • part three. "Orientally yours"
  • Weimar Berlin
  • "Orientally yours"
  • Conversation with AMW
  • The vamp
  • Picadilly
  • The circle of chalk
  • The first word
  • part four. Daughter of the dragon
  • On the spot
  • Daughter of the dragon
  • Shanghai express
  • To be kissed, or not
  • Not so good Earth
  • part five. China
  • Transpacific interlude
  • Shanghai
  • Chinese Alice in Shanghailand
  • Fragrant harbor
  • Chinese gestures
  • The dust of the Earth
  • At the palace of the dragon lady
  • part six. The big nowhere
  • These foolish things
  • Daughter of Shanghai
  • Your name in Chinese
  • Goddess of mercy
  • Will the real lady from Chungking please stand up?
  • The big nowhere
  • Ready for close-up.