It is written by Yunte Huang, an author and English professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Read more at straitstimes.com.
LOS ANGELES – Yunte Huang was emerging from the bathroom at the Formosa Cafe, a storied Chinese restaurant in Hollywood, when a woman with long, blonde hair waved him down and requested a table for one.
For each book, Huang chose a subject with a complicated, controversial legacy. In the case of Wong, he said, she is “revered but also one of the most reviled characters in Asian-American history”, seen by some as perpetuating the stereotypes of “dragon lady or Madama Butterfly”. It is the very complexity of the subjects that drew him, he said.
A character based on Wong winds her way through the early scenes of Damien Chazelle’s 2022 film Babylon – a dazzler with black bangs, comfortable with her bisexuality. In 2023, Gail Tsukiyama published a novel based on Wong’s life, The Brightest Star. And in 2024, another biography, Not Your China Doll, by Katie Gee Salisbury, will be published by Dutton.
Wong was born Wong Liu Tsong in Los Angeles in 1905, and grew up in her father’s laundry shop, a few blocks from the city’s Chinatown. It was a dangerous time. There were growing restrictions on Chinese immigrants nationally and routine acts of violence and looting against the Chinese community, particularly in California. Chinese Angelenos wore whistles around their necks to ward off would-be attackers on the street.
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