Anna May Wong Book Reading and Lecture Event

Yunte Huang is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A Guggenheim Fellow, he is the author of Charlie Chan (Norton, 2010), which 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 one of the Best Books 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.

His most recent book, the third and final installment of his “Rendezvous with America” trilogy, Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong’s Rendezvous with American History, explores the tortured legacy of Hollywood’s first Chinese star against the backdrop of twentieth-century America. It was published by Liveright in 2023 and named one of the Best Books of the Year by the New York Times and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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