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‘I was killed in virtually every film’: how trailblazing Chinese-American star Anna May Wong upended cinema | Film

‘I was killed in virtually every film’: how trailblazing Chinese-American star Anna May Wong upended cinema | Film

Anna May Wong is everywhere these days. The chic Chinese-American actor who first made a splash in the silent era has been fictionalised in films and TV shows, including Ryan Murphy’s Hollywood and Damien Chazelle’s Babylon, and an excellent novel, Amanda Lee Koe’s Delayed Rays of a Star. She has her face on the quarter, the first Asian-American to be …

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