S1E140 - Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong with Katie Gee Salisbury

Episode Notes When was the first time you saw yourself represented on screen? An actor or actress who looked like you? For better or worse, media shapes how we think about ourselves and others and often fills in the gap when we don’t have first-hand experience with certain situations, circumstances, or groups of people. For me, as an Asian American woman growing up in the 90s, Asian Americans weren’t completely invisible but we had limited and often stereotypical roles. I wonder what it would have been like to grow up with an Asian American actress to look up to. Today we’re delving into the life of our first Asian American movie star, the opportunities she seized, the challenges she faced, and the legacy she left. I’m joined by Katie Gee Salisbury, author of Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong. In addition to writing Not Your China Doll, Katie’s work has appeared in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Believer, the Asian American Writers' Workshop, and elsewhere. She was a finalist for the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in 2021 and gave the TED Talk “As American as Chop Suey.” Katie also writes the newsletter Half-Caste Woman. A fifth-generation Chinese American who hails from Southern California, she now lives in Brooklyn.

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S1E140 - Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong with Katie Gee Salisbury is an episode from Let's Grab Coffee by WYXR.

This episode is 00:52:18 long.

This episode was published on Jul 22, 2024.

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