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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.

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Television journalists --- Television personalities --- Biography. --- Chai, Jing, --- S05/0221 --- S16/0470 --- China: Biographies and memoirs--20th century: individuals --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Modern tales, short stories, prose: texts and translations

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"This is the first book-length study of Wang Wenxing in English. It offers biographic, cultural, textual, literary, and linguistic readings of Wang's work. The essays cover topics such as Wang's writing principles, typology of characters, analysis of lexicon, employment of stream-of-consciousness, musicality, relationship to Modernist writers of the West, relationship to Lu Xun, and issues of translating Wang's works into Western languages. There are original contributions by Wang Wenxing illuminating his own writing through a discussion of his way of reading, and a biographical essay by Ch'en Chu-yun, his wife, who shares with the reader moments of their private life and the writing habits of her husband. In addition, this volume appends outlines of Wang's novels and bibliographies that are valuable to both students and scholars in their studies of Wang Wenxing's writing in particular as well as to the understanding of Taiwanese and Chinese literature in general."

Wang, Wenxing, --- Wang, Wen-hsing, --- Wen-Hsing, Wang, --- 王文兴, --- 王文興, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Translations --- History and criticism. --- S05/0221 --- S16/0190 --- China: Biographies and memoirs--20th century: individuals --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Literary criticism

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S05/0220 --- S05/0221 --- Academic collection --- #SBIB:327H05 --- China: Biographies and memoirs--20th century: collective biographies --- China: Biographies and memoirs--20th century: individuals --- Internationale betrekkingen: documenten --- International relations. Foreign policy --- Han Lih-wu --- China

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S15/1100 --- S05/0221 --- S18/0300 --- China: Language--Reading aids (e.g. annotated Chinese texts) --- China: Biographies and memoirs--20th century: individuals --- China: Music and sports--Sports (incl. acrobatics) --- Didactics of Chinese --- Chinese languages --- Ming, Yao