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Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong
Author(s): Anthony B. Chan (Author)
- Publisher: Scarecrow Press
- Publication Date: 9 Oct. 2003
- Language: English
- Print length: 320 pages
- ISBN-10: 0810847892
- ISBN-13: 9780810847897
Book Description
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.
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About the Author
Anthony B. Chan is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Washington, Seattle, and the author of Arming The Chinese (1982), Gold Mountain (1983), Li Ka-shing: Hong Kong’s Elusive Billionaire (1996), and co-editor of People to People (1997). He was a Senior Producer and Anchor of Focus at TVB, Hong Kong, and a television journalist at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Currently an independent filmmaker, his four part series on Asian Americans in Vietnam includes American Nurse (1993), Sweat Heat (1998), and The Insanity of It All (2002).
