Katie Gee Salisbury is the author of Not Your Ch ina Doll\, a new biography of Anna May Wong\, the first Asian American movi e star. Her work has appeared in the New York Times\, Vanity Fair\, The Bel iever\, the Asian American Writers' Workshop\, and elsewhere. She was a fin alist for the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in 2021 and gave the TED Talk “ As American as Chop Suey.” She also writes the newsletter Half-Caste Woman. A fifth-generation Chinese American who hails from Southern California\, s he now lives in Brooklyn.
Mila Zuo is Associate Professor in Cinema a nd Media Studies at UBC. Her book Vulgar Beauty: Acting Chinese in the Glob al Sensorium (Duke UP\, 2022) received the best book award in media\, perfo rmance\, and visual studies from the Association for Asian American Studies . Other articles can be found in Celebrity Studies\, Women & Performance\, Post 45\, and Journal of Chinese Cinemas. In addition to her scholarly work \, Zuo is also a filmmaker whose award-winning works have screened in numer ous international film festivals\, universities\, and galleries.
A Q& A\, moderated by Mila Zuo (Film)\, will follow. Books will be available for purchase at the event.
Set ag ainst the glittering backdrop of Los Angeles during the gin-soaked Jazz Age and the rise of Hollywood\, this debut book celebrates Anna May Wong\, the first Asian American movie star\, to bring an unsung heroine to light and reclaim her place in cinema history.
Before Constan ce Wu\, Sandra Oh\, Awkwafina\, or Lucy Liu\, there was Anna May Wong. In h er time\, she was a legendary beauty\, witty conversationalist\, and fashio n icon. Plucked from her family’s laundry business in Los Angeles\, Anna Ma y Wong rose to stardom in Douglas Fairbanks’s blockbuster The Thief of Bagdad. Fans and the press clamored to see more of this unlikely actre ss\, but when Hollywood repeatedly cast her in stereotypical roles\, she he aded abroad in protest.
Anna May starred in acclaimed films in Berlin\, Paris\, and London. She dazzled royalty and heads of state acro ss several nations\, leaving trails of suitors in her wake. She returned to challenge Hollywood at its own game by speaking out about the industry’s b latant racism. She used her new stature to move away from her typecasting a s the China doll or dragon lady\, and worked to reshape Asian American repr esentation in film.
Filled with stories of capricious direct ors and admiring costars\, glamorous parties and far-flung love affairs\, < em>Not Your China Doll showcases the vibrant\, radical life of a groun dbreaking artist.
*Book summary from https://www.notyourchinadoll.com/.
This event will be held on October 3 from 2:30 - 4:00 pm in Buchanan Tower 323. Attendees must register ahead of time.
For those unab le to make it\, please note that this session will be recorded and posted o nline at a later date.
This event is co-sponsored by the UBC Centre f or European Studies\, Department of History\, Public Humanities Hub\, Depar tment of Central\, Eastern\, & Northern European Studies\, Department of As ian Studies\, UBC Film Society\, Centre for Cinema Studies\, and the Winnif red Eaton Archive.
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