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Why is a photo of movie icon, Anna May Wong attached to Anthony B. Chan? The answer is simple. Chan wrote the first major biography of Anna May Wong from a truly Asian American/Canadian sensibility. | Why is a photo of movie icon, Anna May Wong attached to Anthony B. Chan? The answer is simple. Chan wrote the first major biography of Anna May Wong from a truly Asian American/Canadian sensibility. | ||
http://annamaywong1905.blogspot.com/ | http://annamaywong1905.blogspot.com/ | ||
http://www.scarecrowpress.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=^DB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0810859092 | http://www.scarecrowpress.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=^DB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0810859092 | ||
Perpetually Cool: The Many lives of Anna May Wong (1905-1961) | |||
Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2003 by Anthony B. Chan | |||
Race, gender, ethnicity, and power are the major themes of Anthony B. Chan's fifth book. Entitled Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong (1905- 1961), it is the first full length biography ever written about the life and times of Anna May Wong, America's most famous film actress of Chinese heritage. Published by Rowman and Littlefield's Scarecrow Press in 2003, the book is unique not only because it is told from the perspective of an Asian American, but also from the view of an experienced scholar, writer, and filmmaker. | |||
Under the editorship of noted film historian, Anthony Slide in his Filmmaker Series, Perpetually Cool tells the multifaceted story of the first Chinese American film star as she grew up in Los Angeles during the time of social and political ferment in which the Chinese revolution touched California. it also tells of Wong's first Hollywood films that would lead to international fame in Berlin, London, and Paris and a multi-picture contract with Paramount studios. Her most famous stage play was in London where her co-star in 1929 was a little known actor named Laurence Olivier. | |||
Since cinema is the purest form of mass communication in its visual and emotional impact, Perpetually Cool resonates with a global audience. Informed by the works of Said, Hall, Wellman, Omi, and Gramsci, the book examines the scope and nature of race and power as they impacted on Wong's personal growth as a Chinese American and cinematic career as an Asian American. There are also extensive textual analyses of Wong's signature films, especially the Toll of the Sea (1922), which was Hollywood's first Technicolor film, the Thief of Bagdad (1924), and her most famous role as Hui Fei in Shanghai Express (1932) opposite Marlene Dietrich. | |||
The biography is a story of roots and identity as Wong ventured to China to discover that part of herself, which was missing during her time in the United States. She was to lose her restlessness and was able to transcend her ethnicity, race, and citizenship. She now understood her place in the universe and began to think and live as a Daoist. This is also the story of the patriotism of Anna May Wong who worked tirelessly against fascism during World War II. Perpetually Cool tells the story of a remarkable Asian American woman whose legendary humor was always filled with pithy philosophical advice. Wong was once overheard to have said, "Life is too serious to take seriously." | |||
Chapter 9 excerpt | |||
Chapter 14 excerpt | |||
Reviews | |||
1/29/2005 - (Time) Richard Corliss, Anna May Wong Did it Right | |||
http://www.time.com/time/columnist/corliss/article/0,9565,1022536,00.html | |||
1/13/2005 - (New York Times Review of Books) Robert Gottlieb | |||
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2005/jan/13/orientally-yours/ | |||
1/26/2004 - Tony Chan at UCLA Anna May Wong retrospective. | |||
http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=6638 | |||
1/25/2004 - UCLA Film and Television Archive And Hugh M. Hefner present "Rediscovering Anna May Wong" | |||
Pictures of Anna May Wong | |||
National Portrait Gallery | |||
http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/display/2004/anna-may-wong.php | |||
Who is Tony Chan? No one knows since Chan has been missing from Canada between 1985 and 2007 when he wandered the earth seeking enlightenment. Not finding that, he returned to Toronto. | Who is Tony Chan? No one knows since Chan has been missing from Canada between 1985 and 2007 when he wandered the earth seeking enlightenment. Not finding that, he returned to Toronto. | ||
Formal profile: | |||
An accomplished scholar, teacher, academic leader, filmmaker, journalist, and writer, Anthony B. Chan is Professor and Associate Dean of Communication at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, Ontario. | An accomplished scholar, teacher, academic leader, filmmaker, journalist, and writer, Anthony B. Chan is Professor and Associate Dean of Communication at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, Ontario. | ||
Born and raised in Victoria, British Columbia, Professor Chan returned to Canada after serving as the Chair of the B.A. and M.A. degree programs in Canadian Studies and Director of the Canadian Studies Center in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and as an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Before moving to the Pacific Northwest in 1990, Tony Chan was an Associate Professor of Mass Communication at California State University, Hayward. His family has been in Canada since 1887 when his paternal grandfather immigrated to Victoria. | Born and raised in Victoria, British Columbia, Professor Chan returned to Canada after serving as the Chair of the B.A. and M.A. degree programs in Canadian Studies and Director of the Canadian Studies Center in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and as an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Before moving to the Pacific Northwest in 1990, Tony Chan was an Associate Professor of Mass Communication at California State University, Hayward. | ||
His family has been in Canada since 1887 when his paternal grandfather immigrated to Victoria. | |||
Complementing his administrative duties at the University of Washington, Tony was the Head of Broadcast Journalism in the School of Communications at UW, and the Assistant Coordinator of the CIDA-funded China Project Office at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. | Complementing his administrative duties at the University of Washington, Tony was the Head of Broadcast Journalism in the School of Communications at UW, and the Assistant Coordinator of the CIDA-funded China Project Office at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. | ||
Dr. Chan’s scholarly film work includes Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong, 1905-1961 (2003, 2007), which chronicled the amazing life and hard times of the legendary Chinese American actor, Anna May Wong http://annamaywong1905.blogspot.com. He has agreed to a film option with Silver Dream Production in Pasadena for a biopic of Anna May Wong, produced by Shanghai film producer, Luo Yan. | Dr. Chan’s scholarly film work includes Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong, 1905-1961 (2003, 2007), which chronicled the amazing life and hard times of the legendary Chinese American actor, Anna May Wong http://annamaywong1905.blogspot.com. He has agreed to a film option with Silver Dream Production in Pasadena for a biopic of Anna May Wong, produced by Shanghai film producer, Luo Yan. | ||
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Obscure writings: | |||
http://www.instrcc.ubc.ca/History485_2008/AnthonyChan.pdf | |||