Daughter of the Dragon

Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History. by Yunte Huang. This biography of the Chinese-American actress covers her life from the early 1900s to her death in the early 1960s. She grew up in Los Angeles, her father owned a laundry where she worked as a teenager, but became interested in the theater and film at an early age. This is of course the story of descrimination in the US, most chinese characters in films were played by white people made to look 'oriental'. She was mostly able to get bit stereotypical parts, with a few successes. She had more success on the stage and did spend several years in China before WW2 studying Chinese theater.