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Download or read book Anna May Wong Paper Dolls written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate the first Chinese-American Hollywood movie star! Anna May Wong made more than 60 motion pictures beginning back in the days of silent movies. Anna May was very fashion conscious, declared in 1934 to be "the best-dressed woman in the world." Illustrated by David Wolfe, this collection represents movie clothes and her own personal wardrobe to dress on three dolls. There are 25 costumes in all plus star bio. An extravagantly executed gem!
Download or read book Anna May Wong written by Philip Leibfried and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna May Wong, born in Los Angeles in 1905 to a Chinese family that did not support her ambition, is the only Asian-American actress to have achieved stardom during Hollywood’s Golden Age. Staying single to avoid endangering her career, she became the darling of the intelligentsia, inspiring poems, songs, and crowds of admirers in the British Isles, Europe, and China. She leaves a legacy of some 60 film appearances, numerous stage and television shows, and several radio spots. This book covers Anna May Wong’s entire career and personal life. Detailed filmographic entries, with critical commentary as well as cast and technical credits, synopses, and newspaper and magazine reviews, are followed by Wong’s stage work and radio and television appearances.
Download or read book Shining Star written by Paula Yoo and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of Chinese American film star Anna May Wong, whose trail-blazing career in Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s broke new ground for future generations of Asian American actors.
Book Synopsis Anna May Wong by : Graham Russell Hodges
Download or read book Anna May Wong written by Graham Russell Hodges and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title provides a biography of Anna May Wong who is undoubtedly, one of the best known and most popular Chinese-American actresses ever to have graced the silver screen. Between 1919 and 1960 she starred in over 50 movies.
Book Synopsis Anna May Wong by : Shirley Jennifer Lim
Download or read book Anna May Wong written by Shirley Jennifer Lim and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneering Chinese American actress Anna May Wong made more than sixty films, headlined theater and vaudeville productions, and even starred in her own television show. Her work helped shape racial modernity as she embodied the dominant image of Chinese and, more generally, “Oriental” women between 1925 and 1940. In Anna May Wong, Shirley Jennifer Lim re-evaluates Wong’s life and work as a consummate artist by mining an historical archive of her efforts outside of Hollywood cinema. From her pan-European films and her self-made My China Film to her encounters with artists such as Josephine Baker, Carl Van Vechten, and Walter Benjamin, Lim scrutinizes Wong’s cultural production and self-fashioning. Byconsidering the salient moments of Wong’s career and cultural output, Lim’s analysis explores the deeper meanings, and positions the actress as an historical and cultural entrepreneur who rewrote categories of representation. Anna May Wong provides a new understanding of the actress’s career as an ingenious creative artist.
Book Synopsis Chinatown Paper Dolls by : Kwei-Lin Lum
Download or read book Chinatown Paper Dolls written by Kwei-Lin Lum and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore many generations of Chinese-American history with this captivating collection of 5 paper dolls and 26 costumes for male and female dolls of all ages. Included are outfits for work, leisure, and formal occasions and a play scene on inside covers.
Book Synopsis Famous African-American Women Paper Dolls by : Tom Tierney
Download or read book Famous African-American Women Paper Dolls written by Tom Tierney and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1994-02-16 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sojourner Truth, Mary McLeod Bethune, Zora Neale Hurston, Althea Gibson, Rosa Parks, Leontyne Price, Maya Angelou, Shirley Chisholm, 8 more.
Book Synopsis Doris Day Paper Dolls by : Pierre Patrick
Download or read book Doris Day Paper Dolls written by Pierre Patrick and published by . This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America¿s screen sweetheart, sunny Doris Day was not only a superstar recording artist but also one of the biggest box office movie stars of all time. From her debut in Romance on the High Seas in 1948 through `50s musicals like Lullaby of Broadway and on to the sexy comedies of the `60s that began with Pillow Talk, Doris Day was a true fashion role model. Her costumes, her hair-dos and her bubbly personality influenced women everywhere. This new paper doll book by fashion expert and artist, David Wolfe, was created with the cooperation of Doris Day authority, Pierre Patrick, and is authorized by the legendary star, herself. In fact, a donation for each book is contributed to the star¿s animal rights charity, the Doris Day Animal Foundation. There are three delightful Doris Dolls and eight pages of 24 iconic movie costumes from films including Love Me or Leave Me, Lover Come Back and Calamity Jane. Also included is a personal message from Miss Doris Day herself!
Download or read book China Dolls written by Lisa See and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1938 and the exclusive Oriental nightclub in San Francisco's Forbidden City is holding auditions for showgirls. In the dark, scandalous glamour of the club, three girls from very different backgrounds stumble into each other lives. All the girls have secrets. Grace, an American-born Chinese girl, has fled the Midwest and an abusive father. Helen is from a Chinese family which has deep roots in San Francisco's Chinatown. And, as both her friends know, Ruby is Japanese passing as Chinese. Then, in a heartbeat, everything changes. The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor and paranoia, suspicion, and a shocking act of betrayal, threaten to destroy their lives.
Download or read book Boarding School Paper Dolls written by and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boarding School Paper Dolls, a 1942 reproduction, is not only a charming bit of nostalgia, it is a reminder of a bygone lifestyle. Six sweet girls, high school age, dress-up in style (even for classes), changing their clothes for every occasion in their busy day. Their classic wardrobes are extensive, including smart suits, snappy coats, perky playsuits, sleepy-time pajamas and robes. And of course, each school girl gets a lovely prom gown. This double-cover paper doll book is colorful, cute fun, but also a delightful glimpse into times past when the very idea of going to boarding school was an aspirational daydream for many little girls.Boarding School Paper Dolls, a 1942 reproduction, is not only a charming bit of nostalgia, it is a reminder of a bygone lifestyle. Six sweet girls, high school age, dress-up in style (even for classes), changing their clothes for every occasion in their busy day. Their classic wardrobes are extensive, including smart suits, snappy coats, perky playsuits, sleepy-time pajamas and robes. And of course, each school girl gets a lovely prom gown. This double-cover paper doll book is colorful, cute fun, but also a delightful glimpse into times past when the very idea of going to boarding school was an aspirational daydream for many little girls.
Book Synopsis Rosie and Mrs. America by : Catherine Gourley
Download or read book Rosie and Mrs. America written by Catherine Gourley and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how popular culture during the Great Depression and later during the Second World War influenced the lives of women.
Book Synopsis Not Your China Doll by : Katie Gee Salisbury
Download or read book Not Your China Doll written by Katie Gee Salisbury and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Enlightening, nuanced, and honest.”—Lisa See Set against 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 Constance Wu, Sandra Oh, Awkwafina, or Lucy Liu, there was Anna May Wong. In her time, she was a legendary beauty, witty conversationalist, and fashion icon. Plucked from her family’s laundry business in Los Angeles, Anna May Wong rose to stardom in Douglas Fairbanks’s blockbuster The Thief of Bagdad. Fans and the press clamored to see more of this unlikely actress, but when Hollywood repeatedly cast her in stereotypical roles, she headed abroad in protest. Anna May starred in acclaimed films in Berlin, Paris, and London. She dazzled royalty and heads of state across 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 blatant racism. She used her new stature to move away from her typecasting as the China doll or dragon lady, and worked to reshape Asian American representation in film. Filled with stories of capricious directors and admiring costars, glamorous parties and far-flung love affairs, Not Your China Doll showcases the vibrant, radical life of a groundbreaking artist.
Book Synopsis Into the Heart of Borneo by : Redmond O'Hanlon
Download or read book Into the Heart of Borneo written by Redmond O'Hanlon and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-02-24 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘We’ve left a lot of men in Borneo – know what I mean?’ With their SAS trainer’s warnings ringing in their ears, the naturalist, Redmond O’Hanlon, and the poet, James Fenton, set out to rediscover the lost rhinoceros of Borneo. They were loaded with enough back-breaking kit to survive two months in a steaming 95° (in the shade) jungle of creeping, crawling, biting things. O’Hanlon could also rely on his encyclopaedic knowledge of the region’s flora and fauna, and had read-up on how to avoid being eaten by anything (stick your thumbs in a crocodile’s eyes, if you have time). And yet they proceeded to have an adventure that neither O’Hanlon, nor his friend, nor even his guides were remotely prepared for... ‘Consistently exciting, often funny, and erudite without ever being overwhelming’ Punch.
Book Synopsis Of Woman by Woman by : R. W. L. Guisso
Download or read book Of Woman by Woman written by R. W. L. Guisso and published by Asian Thought and Culture. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last century of Ming rule (1368-1644) in China saw an unparalleled and short-lived loosening of the restraints of conventional Confucian morality in both art and literature, and the two novellas translated in Of Woman by Woman are representative of that trend. Both were written under pseudonyms, and although there is evidence that both appeared first in the mid to late sixteenth-century, neither their authorship nor publication date can be established with any precision. Both were proscribed in the eighteenth-century literary inquisition of the Qianlong emperor, and remained banned in China until copies first appeared on the Internet in the 1990s. They are still largely unknown there, and hence have received scant attention from scholars both in East and West. Both, however, are milestones in China's literary history. The first, Lord of Perfect Satisfaction (Ruyijun zhuan), recounts the amours of China's one and only female emperor, Wu Zetian, who exercised power for her incompetent husband for almost three decades in the glorious Tang dynasty. In 690, she overthrew the Tang and proclaimed herself the «Holy and Divine Emperor,» of a new Zhou dynasty which she ruled until her forced abdication and the Tang restoration in 705. History tells us that after she was widowed, she embarked upon a number of sexual liaisons, and throughout her sixties and into her seventies enjoyed a series of young lovers. The boudoir scenes in the novella constitute China's earliest examples of wholly explicit carnality, and can thus be regarded as the «fountainhead» of Chinese eroticism. The second, Memoir of a Crazy Old Woman (Chipozi zhuan), appeared a few decades later and, in semi-autobiographical style, tells the tale of an upper-class woman whose sexual appetites lead her to ruin and a reclusive old age. In this single work, we see the full spectrum of sexual decadence in the late-Ming - seduction and rape, group sex and incest, and even an encounter with a Buddhist abbot. In spite of the pseudonym «Madame Hibiscus», previous commentators have stubbornly refused to believe that a female could have penned such an erotic, even «pornographic», work. The translators challenge this view, suggesting that this is the earliest work of erotica in world literary history whose author was, indeed, a woman.
Book Synopsis Heavens to Betsy! by : Charles E. Funk
Download or read book Heavens to Betsy! written by Charles E. Funk and published by Harper Paperbacks. This book was released on 1993-07-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's as mad as a hatter! Whether it's like a bump on a log or a bat out of hell, these expressions have been around forever, but we've never really known why ... until now! Finally Dr. Funk explains more than 400 droll, colorful, and sometimes pungent expressions of everyday speech. Derived from classical sources, historic events, famous literature, frontier humor, and the frailties of humankind, each of these sayings has an interesting story behind its origin. If you've ever wondered why when you're in a hurry you are told to hold your horses, wonder no more!
Book Synopsis Goddess Oshun by : Soulful Living Journals
Download or read book Goddess Oshun written by Soulful Living Journals and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goddess Oshun: Beauty, Love and Prosperity Journal-Notebook - Record your Spiritual Journey, Thoughts and Personal Development. * 120 pages - Blank + Lined* 6" x 9" Paperback notebook, soft matte cover * Perfect for gel pen, ink or pencils* Great Gift Item
Book Synopsis The Splendid Drunken Twenties by : Carl Van Vechten
Download or read book The Splendid Drunken Twenties written by Carl Van Vechten and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This generous, representative sampling from the daybooks of Carl Van Vechten, one of the most significant figures of the Harlem Renaissance, is a rich resource and major reference tool for reconstructing the culture of 1920s New York, the social milieu during Prohibition, and more. Bruce Kellner has provided copious, informative notes identifying central figures and clarifying details.Between 1922 and 1930, Van Vechten kept a daily record of his activities. Not exactly diaries, but more than appointment books, the daybooks record his daily comings and goings as well as the alliances, drinking habits, feuds, and affairs of a wide number of luminaries of the period. They catalog tales of bootlegging, literary teas, shifting cliques of artists and writers, cabaret slumming, sexual and social peccadilloes, and a seemingly endless sequence of parties.
