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Anna May Wong is, undoubtedly, the most luminous Chinese American actress ever to grace the silver screen. Between 1919 and 1960 she starred in over fifty films and shared equal billing with Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Marlene Dietrich, and Warner Oland. But her life, though glamorous, is almost the prototypical story of an immigrant's difficult path through America. Born in Los Angeles in 1905, she was the second daughter of eight children born to a laundryman and his wife. Growing up in Los Angeles fuelled her fascination with Hollywood, and in 1919 she secured a small part in her first film, The Red Lantern with Alla Nazimova. Her most famous film roles were in Toll of the Sea, Piccadilly, The Thief of Bagdad, Daughter of the Dragon, and most importantly, Shanghai Express, opposite Dietrich. Anna May Wong was an international celebrity whose friendships with intellectuals and artists included the famed Chinese actress Butterfly Wu, Walter Benjamin, Carl Van Vechten, Paul Robeson, Edward Steichen, and Mei Lan Fan. Even though Anna May Wong made many landmark films, discrimination against Asians in Hollywood insured that she was passed over for the lead role in the film version of Pearl Buck's The Good Earth. Apparently Wong was "too Asian" for the role. The British Film Institute recently released a newly restored version of Wong's classic film Piccadilly and the world will, once again, thrill to the artistry of this great actress. Graham Hodges' biography of Anna May Wong rediscovers one of Hollywood's most legendary actresses and is a must for film lovers.

Motion picture actors and actresses --- Wong, Anna May, --- S05/0221 --- China: Biographies and memoirs--20th century: individuals --- Wong, Liu Tsong, --- Wong, Liu Tsong

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To the Storm by Yue Daiyun and Carolyn Wakeman is the fascinating story of Yue Daiyun, a faculty member at Beijing University. Yue Daiyun was a revolutionary from her early school days. She had been a child during the anti-Japanese war and hated the Guomundang. Accepted as a student at Beida in 1948, she joined the Communist Party's underground Democratic youth League and became a Party member the following year and helped with the Liberation of Beijing.   While a student at Beida, she served as a delegate at the Prague 2nd World Student Congress in 1950 and worked in the countryside on land reform in 1951-52. Then she graduated from Beida and became a faculty member in the literature department. She married her husband, Lao Tang, the day after their graduation. He obtained a faculty position in the philosophy department. Both were loyal to Chairman Mao and the goals of the Revolution.   Their lives went smoothly for several years until 1958. Yue Daiyun taught Chinese literature and took part in many activities on campus. She read many Western books and supported the formation of a new literary magazine on campus. This eventually brought her into conflict with the authorities and the beginning of two decades of problems and persecution for her and her family. The Party had encouraged openness and criticism of its mistakes and deficiencies in the system. Yue Daiyun had taken part in the discussions, believing that she was helping to build a better China.   Summoned to a meeting at her department one day, she was denounced as a rightist. She did not understand what she did wrong, but she was quickly relieved of her teaching duties and sent to the countryside to work and live with the peasants for two years. This was the first of her suspensions from teaching.   Both Yue Daiyun and her husband, Lao Tang, were caught up in the persecution and violence of the Cultural Revolution. They had spent two years at a cadre school in Liyouhoz and when they returned to Beijing, Lao Tang was selected to work on a special task force called Liang Xaio. This brought Lao Tang and the group into close association with Jiang Qing and the Gang of Four. When the Gang of Four was arrested, Lao Tang suffered through a year long investigation before being cleared. Throughout this time their family suffered from the persecution of others. In the end, the authorities admitted that they were wrong in their case against her and reinstated her Party membership.   In this interesting autobiography, Yue Daiyun tells her story of the life she and her family lived during these somewhat violent and terror-filled years in China.

College teachers --- History of Education --- Education --- Social Sciences --- Biography --- Yue, Daiyun. --- Yüeh, Tai-yün --- Le, Daiyun --- Le, Tai-yün --- 乐黛云 --- 樂黛雲 --- Daiyun, Yue --- China --- History --- S05/0221 --- S06/0420 --- #SML: Joseph Spae --- China: Biographies and memoirs--20th century: individuals --- China: Politics and government--CCP: since 1949 (Here also general policy and ideology in that period)

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The extraordinary life of the Manchu author, feminist and figure of controversy, who yearned to expose the true humanity of the elderly empress dowager feared and hated by the rest of the world, but never quite shared the truth of herself.

Cixi, Empress dowager of China, 1875-1908. --- Der Ling, --- China --- History --- Court and courtiers. --- S05/0221 --- China: Biographies and memoirs--20th century: individuals --- Deling, --- Te-ling, --- 德齡, --- 德齢, --- 德龄, --- 德菱, --- Deling gong zhu --- Te-ling kung chu --- 德齡公主 --- 德菱公主 --- Deling jun zhu --- Te-ling chün chu --- 德齡郡主 --- Yu, Deling --- 裕德龄

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China Bound and Unbound recounts how one woman's hope of building a new China gradually turned to disappointment, disillusionment and despair, reflecting the minds of China's intellectuals at the time. --In this first-hand account, Frances Wong relates her personal experiences in China from 1949 to the present, detailing numerous political movements, including the devastating experiences of the Anti-Rightist Movement and the Cultural Revolution. After her husband was labeled a ""Rightist,"" they were banished to the countryside for eight long years, while their four children were sent to diffe

College teachers -- China -- Hong Kong -- Biography. --- Wong, Frances, 1923-. --- College teachers --- Education --- Theory & Practice of Education --- History of Education --- Social Sciences --- Wong, Frances, --- Academicians --- Academics (Persons) --- College instructors --- College lecturers --- College professors --- College science teachers --- Lectors (Higher education) --- Lecturers, College --- Lecturers, University --- Professors --- Universities and colleges --- University academics --- University instructors --- University lecturers --- University professors --- University teachers --- Teachers --- Wong, Fran, --- Faculty --- S05/0221 --- China: Biographies and memoirs--20th century: individuals

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This volume offers a careful analysis of the contextual Christology of T. C. Chao, one of the most important Chinese theologians and Chinese church leaders in the first half of twentieth century. At the core of Chao’s Christology is the encounter between Christianity and the Chinese people, in particular the Chinese Christians. In response to the rapid social changes in China between 1910-1950, he attempted to develop a relevant theology by focusing on the characteristics of Christianity and, at the same time, aiming to understand Christianity within its Chinese context.

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