In the early Twentieth Century, Anna May Wong was deemed too Chinese to play white roles and too American to play Chinese roles but that did not stop her from becoming an international icon. Cinema Junkie speaks with Yunte Huang, author of a new biography on the Asian American Actress.
BETH ACCOMANDO Welcome back to Cinema Junkie. Actress Anna May Wong has been honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and her face on the U.S. quarter. She was a trailblazer in many ways for both women and Asian Americans. But because of the attitudes of her times that forbade an Asian actress from kissing a white man on screen, she was never really allowed to be a leading lady in the popular romantic sense.
YUNTE HUANGShe totally understood the Charlie Chanish stereotype people have that as if Chinese always, like, all Charlie Chan spouting off Confucian aphorisms. And so she would know Confucius didn't say this, so she totally at ease, I think, with this kind of how people look at her and how she can maneuver, at least challenge people a little bit, not kind of in your face, but she will do this in a very interesting way. And that's really part of her charm as well.
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