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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Huang, Yunte, author.     Subjects     Wong, Anna May, 1905-1961.     Chinese American motion picture actors and actresses -- Biography.     Asian Americans in the motion picture industry.     Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Huang, Yunte, author.       by title:      Daughter of the drag...         MARC Display

Daughter of the dragon : Anna May Wong's rendezvous with American history / Yunte Huang. by Huang, Yunte, author. New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2023] Subjects Wong, Anna May, 1905-1961.   Chinese American motion picture actors and actresses -- Biography.   Asian Americans in the motion picture industry.   Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Biography. ISBN:  9781631495809 (hardcover) : 1631495801 (hardcover) Description:  xvi, 382 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. 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. Requests:  0 Summary:  The story of Anna May Wong, who fought virulent anti-Chinese xenophobia, unabashed sexism, cinematic exploitation and ageism that defined American culture in the 20th century to became Hollywood's first Chinese American film star.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii Kai Public Library Adult New Books 791.43028 Wong Hu Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Adult New Books 791.43028 Wong Hu Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 791.43028 Wong Hu Checked In Add Copy to MyList Liliha Public Library Adult Nonfiction 791.43028 Wong Hu Checked In Add Copy to MyList Makawao Public Library Adult Nonfiction 791.43028 Wong Hu Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 791.43028 Wong Hu Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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