Anna May Wong
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Anna May Wong

Performing the Modern

  1. English
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eBook - PDF

Anna May Wong

Performing the Modern

About this book

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 Lim re-evaluates Wong's life and work as a consummate artist by mining an historical archive of her efforts outside of Hollywood cinema. From her pan-European films and her self-made My China Film to her encounters with artists such as Josephine Baker, Carl Van Vechten, and Walter Benjamin, Lim scrutinizes Wong's cultural production and self-fashioning. Byconsidering the salient moments of Wong's career and cultural output, Lim's analysis explores the deeper meanings, and positions the actress as an historical and cultural entrepreneur who rewrote categories of representation.  

Anna May Wong provides a new understanding of the actress's career as an ingenious creative artist.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Author’s Note
  3. Introduction
  4. Prologue: Anna May Wong in Los Angeles
  5. 1. “Speaking German Like Nobody’s Business”: Anna May Wong in Berlin
  6. 2. American Moderns in Europe: Anna May Wong and Josephine Baker
  7. 3. “I Can Play Any Type of Oriental”: Anna Watches Josephine at the Casino de Paris, 1932
  8. 4. Glamourous American Moderns: Anna May Wong and Lupe VĂ©lez
  9. 5. “My China Film”
  10. 6. Anna May Wong in Australia
  11. Epilogue: Bold Journey, Native Land
  12. Acknowledgments
  13. Scholarship on Anna May Wong
  14. Selected Bibliography
  15. Index