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Anna May Wong : performing the modern
- Title
- Anna May Wong : performing the modern / Shirley Jennifer Lim.
- Author
- Lim, Shirley Jennifer, 1968-
- Publication
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- x, 246 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "This critical cultural biography of Anna May Wong--a Chinese American actress who made close to sixty films, headlined theater and vaudeville productions, and had her own television show in 1951--examines Wong's life in order to gain an understanding of racial modernity and twentieth-century Western fantasies of China"--
- Series Statement
- Asian American history and culture
- Uniform Title
- Asian American history and culture.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-235) and index.
- Contents
- Prologue: Anna May Wong in Los Angeles -- 'Speaking German like nobody's business': Anna May Wong in Berlin -- American moderns in Europe: Anna May Wong and Josephine Baker -- 'I can play any type of Oriental': Anna watches Josephine at the Casino de Paris, 1932 -- Glamourous American moderns: Anna May Wong and Lupe Velez -- My China film -- Anna May Wong in Australia -- Epilogue: Bold journey, native land.
- Call Number
- MWES (Wong, A.) 19-2936
- ISBN
- 9781439918333
- 1439918333
- 9781439918340
- 1439918341
- LCCN
- 2018036126
- OCLC
- 1050362551
- Author
- Lim, Shirley Jennifer, 1968- author.
- Title
- Anna May Wong : performing the modern / Shirley Jennifer Lim.
- Publisher
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Asian American history and cultureAsian American history and culture.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-235) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Lim, Shirley Jennifer, 1968- author. Anna May Wong Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2019] 9781439918357 (DLC) 2018050041
- Research Call Number
- MWES (Wong, A.) 19-2936