Anna May Wong: Performing the Modern

by Shirley Jennifer Lim

Book Overview

Finalist for the 2020 Organization of American Historians Mary Nickliss Prize

Pioneering Chinese American actress Anna May Wong made more than sixty films, headlined theater and vaudeville productions, and even starred in her own television show. Her work helped shape racial modernity as she embodied the dominant image of Chinese and, more generally, "Oriental" women between 1925 and 1940.

In Anna May Wong, Shirley Jennifer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439918341
• ISBN13: 9781439918340
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"