Sexy Beijing: Discovering Anna May Wong
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Uploaded by sexybeijingTV on Aug 3, 2007
From http://www.sexybeijing.tv In this episode of Sexy Beijing, Su Fei explores the life of the sexiest Chinese American woman ever to grace the silver screen: Anna May Wong (黄柳霜).
Born to a Chinese laundryman's family in 1905 in Los Angeles, she went on to become a Hollywood icon in a career that started in 1919 and went on till the 1960s.
Her career and personal life suffered because of California's anti-miscegenation laws. Despite this, she had a mixed reception in China where many people criticized her for bringing shame upon Chinese people in a way reminiscent of the treatment Zhang Ziyi sometimes gets at home, despite her popularity abroad.
Graham Russel Gao Hodges is the author of a recent book about her called Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend. This episode of Sexy Beijing is an interview by Su Fei with Professor Hodges.
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Wow this was very interesting. She was definitley hollywood quality. Very well done. I am adding this to my playlist.
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@pwalker00 I'm an american (WASP) who's been living in Brazil for 7 years and I had all those politically correct ideals and guilt trips in American high school (not college, that was here in Brazil). I am coming to believe that the analysis of "ethnic stereotypes" and all this talk about it is sort of a U.S. obsession and I'm not sure it's a whole lot healthier than just plain being a great big bigot. It's actually kind of confusing and complicated. I wish it was simple.
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I was touched at the end, well done!
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Great video, Sufei! And to the pwalker00 idiot, Asian people are no longer called "Orientals," just as African Americans are no longer referred to as "Coloreds."
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Thanks for the interview. Great stuff.
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Thanks for the interview, this is GREAT!
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I like her 旗袍 Qi Pao dress. I think I want to read a book about her life.
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Impressive. Thank you for sharing this.
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wow. this is the first time i heard of her.
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Can I see the real anime? I don't want Anna May Wong.
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Hollywood continues to propagate negative stereotypes of Orientals. Orientals typically play demeaning roles as idiotic vermin to the western world. At best, oriental Females play "Venomous Woman" roles to leading white character(s), and oriental males play supportive roles as comical Kung Fu foreigners. The American born Oriental, particularly the Oriental male, simply doesn't exist. Seems Hollywood is the most ignorant towards their own Americans -- American born Orientals that is.
pwalker00 3 years ago 16
be nice to people I am chinese and I totally disgree with you!
fyb0208 3 years ago 8