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Anna May Wong: Performing the Modern
Temple University Press, 2019 Paper: 978-1-4399-1834-0 | eISBN: 978-1-4399-1835-7 | Cloth: 978-1-4399-1833-3 Library of Congress Classification PN2287.W56L56 2019 Dewey Decimal Classification 791.43028092
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Finalist for the 2020 Organization of American Historians Mary Nickliss Prize 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. See other books on: 1905-1961 | Asian American & Pacific Islander Studies | Modern | Performing | Women's Studies See other titles from Temple University Press |
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Anna May Wong: Performing the Modern
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Temple University Press, 2019
Paper: 978-1-4399-1834-0
eISBN: 978-1-4399-1835-7
Cloth: 978-1-4399-1833-3
Paper: 978-1-4399-1834-0
eISBN: 978-1-4399-1835-7
Cloth: 978-1-4399-1833-3
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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