Arcadia native Katie Gee Salisbury is the author of “Not Your China Doll,” a new biography out from Dutton.
and that I also had never heard of her,” Salisbury recalls on a video call from Brooklyn, where she is now based. “I’m half Chinese. I grew up in an Asian American community in Arcadia and I was like, if she was that famous, how come no one is talking about her?”
She adds that the story often ends with Wong losing the lead role in “The Good Earth” to German American actress Luise Rainer. But Salisbury thought that there had to be more to it. In fact, Wong’s filmography is packed. She starred in crime films like “Daughter of Shanghai” and “King of Chinatown” in the late 1930s. Salisbury points to “Daughter of Shanghai,” where Wong and Philip Ahn play the film’s heroes who have a romantic relationship, which was groundbreaking at a time when Asian Americans were often bypassed for romantic leads.
“It’s so impressive how she continually found workarounds and new ideas that worked, that people were interested in,” says Salisbury. “Towards the end of her career, she had no issue with shifting to character roles, where she wasn’t the leading actress anymore, but she played a lot of interesting roles on television.”As Salisbury notes, Wong’s work is making its way to more contemporary viewers, and there’s increased interest in the star.
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