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Anna May Wong

Chinese American actress (1905-1961)

Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Country: HK
Active from: 1969-08-08

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Total plays: 2

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,509x
Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales.
· 1988 · cited 28,823x
Antioxidant activity applying an improved ABTS radical cation decolorization assay
· 1999 · cited 20,935x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,392x
ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates
· 2017 · cited 16,395x

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Quotes

“I was so tired of the parts I had to play. Why is it that the screen Chinese is nearly always the villain of the piece, and so cruel a villain--murderous, treacherous, a snake in the grass. We are not like that. How should we be, with a civilization that’s so many times older than that of the West. We have our own virtues. We have our rigid code of behavior, of honor. Why do they never show these on the screen? Why should we always scheme, rob, kill?”
“I am convinced that I could never play in the Chinese theater. I have no feeling for it. It’s a pretty sad situation to be rejected by the Chinese because I’m too American.”

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Key facts

Born: Wong Liu Tsong , ( 1905-01-03 ) January 3, 1905, Los Angeles, California , U.S.
Died: February 3, 1961 (1961-02-03) (aged 56), Santa Monica, California , U.S.
Resting place: Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery
Occupation: Actress
Years active: 1919–1961
Known for: The Toll of the Sea (1922), Piccadilly (1929), Shanghai Express (1932), Daughter of Shanghai (1937)
Awards: Hollywood Walk of Fame – Motion Picture, 1700 Vine Street
Traditional chinese: 黃柳霜
Simplified chinese: 黄柳霜
Hanyu pinyin: Huáng Liǔshuāng
Wade giles: Huang Liu Shuang
Jyutping: Wong Lau soeng

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Wong Liu Tsong (January 3, 1905 – February 3, 1961), known professionally as Anna May Wong, was an American actress, considered the first Chinese American film star in Hollywood, as well as the first Chinese American actress to gain international recognition. Her varied career spanned vaudeville, silent film, sound film, television, stage, and radio.