Anna May Wong
Anna May Wong was one of the youngest Asian actors in Hollywood. She was a drop-out in high school at the age of 16, trying to pursue roles in acting. Anna May Wong played her first role at 17, in the silent film Troll of the Sea.
Her roles played very typical Asian images that Americans stereotyped Asians as. She played many supporting roles as a "Dragon Lady". She sometimes played other roles where she helped Americans against the Japanese. China learned of Wong's success but had mixed feelings upon her roles in films. In Troll of the Sea, she was a young Chinese lady who had met an American man, and stereotypical as can be, the Chinese female actor's character fell in love with the American man.
Anna May Wong played a bunch of roles that even to this day seem to be the only "real" roles Americans can see Asian women play. I believe this is plainly just stereotypical discrimination. Just as there are images of Asian males (i.e being scrawny, geeky and never getting the hot chick), Wong was put into many situation film career-wise where she would be acting to promote these images as politically correct.
Her roles played very typical Asian images that Americans stereotyped Asians as. She played many supporting roles as a "Dragon Lady". She sometimes played other roles where she helped Americans against the Japanese. China learned of Wong's success but had mixed feelings upon her roles in films. In Troll of the Sea, she was a young Chinese lady who had met an American man, and stereotypical as can be, the Chinese female actor's character fell in love with the American man.
Anna May Wong played a bunch of roles that even to this day seem to be the only "real" roles Americans can see Asian women play. I believe this is plainly just stereotypical discrimination. Just as there are images of Asian males (i.e being scrawny, geeky and never getting the hot chick), Wong was put into many situation film career-wise where she would be acting to promote these images as politically correct.
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