Anna May Wong’s Rendezvous with America

The USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies welcomes Yunte Huang to campus for a lecture based on his award-winning book, Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong’s Rendezvous with American History, which explores the tortured legacy of Anna May Wong, who rose from her father’s laundry in Los Angeles to become the first Chinese icon in Hollywood.

Yunte Huang is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A Guggenheim Fellow in 2014-2015, he is the author of Transpacific Displacement (U of California Press, 2002), Transpacific Imaginations (Harvard UP, 2008), and Chinese Whispers (U of Chicago Press, 2022). His creative nonfiction book, Charlie Chan (Norton, 2010), won the Edgar Award and was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. His Inseparable (Liveright, 2018), also a finalist for the NBCC award, was named Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, NPR, and Newsweek. He has published articles in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune,PMLA, and others, and has been featured on NPR, CBS, BBC, C-SPAN, and others. He is also the translator into Chinese of Ezra Pound’s The Cantos, and the translator into English of Che Qianzi, No Poetry, as well as the editor of The Big Red Book of Modern Chinese Literature (Norton, 2016). His new book, the third and final installment of his “Rendezvous with America” trilogy, Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong’s Rendezvous with American History (Liveright, 2023), was named one of the Notable Books of the Year by the New York Times and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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