Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong
Book Release Event with Katie Gee Salisbury
Saturday, Mar. 22, 2025
1 PM
FREE
Set against the glittering backdrop of Los Angeles during the gin-soaked Jazz Age and the rise of Hollywood, Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong celebrates the first Asian American movie star, bringing an unsung heroine to light and reclaiming her place in cinema history. Join us on March 22, 2025, at 1 PM as we welcome author Katie Gee Salisbury for a book talk and signing highlighting this exciting new biography.
This event is presented by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center and Eastwind Books of Berkeley.
Meet the Author
Katie Gee Salisbury is the author of Not Your China Doll, a new biography of Anna May Wong, Hollywood’s first Asian American movie star. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Believer, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and elsewhere. She was a finalist for the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in 2021 and gave the TED Talk “As American as Chop Suey.” She also writes the newsletter Half-Caste Woman. A fifth-generation Chinese American who hails from Southern California, she now lives in Brooklyn.
