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Publication date:

09 October 2003

Length of book:

320 pages

ISBN-13: 9780810847897

This is the first biography about Anna May Wong, a remarkable Asian American woman who became the country's most famous film actress of Chinese descent. This multi-faceted tale takes the reader on a compelling journey through Wong's early years in Los Angeles and her first Hollywood pictures - films that led to her international fame. It is also an examination into the scope of race, gender, and power and their impact on her personal growth as a Chinese American.
It [is] most interesting when instructing us on how early Chinese-American immigrants made their way and on the legal and social restraints under which they lived.--Robert Gottlieb "The New York Review Of Books "