Author of “Daughter of the Dragon,” “Inseparable," "Charlie Chan," and editor of "The Big Red Book of Modern Chinese Literature," all from @wwnorton @liveright
I think I’ve asked this question before:
How is it that judges for fiction in translation consistently select compelling titles but judges for USA fiction consistently do not?
I think I’ve asked this question before:
How is it that judges for fiction in translation consistently select compelling titles but judges for USA fiction consistently do not?
My impression is that judges of USA fiction are typically USA writers who have won USA prizes by writing as if modernism & postmodernism never happened
which explains their boring novels and their boring choices
Born in Los Angeles in 1905, actress Anna May Wong was the daughter of a laundryman who became a global celebrity. @yunte offers a moving portrait of a screen siren who is “far more complicated than her legendary celluloid image would suggest”. @wwnorton
https://t.co/gKOSGdOB1E
May 24: @yunte and I will be at the @AcademyMuseum this Friday in conversation about his newest book "Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History." Ticket includes general admission to the museum. https://t.co/tJmkXysoUe
She’s the face of a 2022 @usmint quarter & her own @Barbie in the ‘Inspiring Women’ series — but who is Anna May Wong, and what made her an icon? @yunte tells Wong’s story in the last book of his Asian American icons trilogy, ‘Daughter of the Dragon.’ https://t.co/EWgZwg2bkB
The finalists for the 93rd Annual #CaliforniaBookAwards are out!
Nonfiction finalists @PeterGleick Lisa M. Hamilton @yunte Huang, Fae Myenne Ng & @RosannaXia
See full list: https://t.co/viQVqiaXLn
A new memoir by Manjula Martin exposes the ways climate change will reach into the most personal recesses in our life, writes @caseyschwartz. https://t.co/O8PZRPr7dw
In June, Jerome Rothenberg & I read at @Gagosian Gallery LA, at Kiefer’s show, Re: the Khurbn (Yiddish -- catastrophe). Posted for International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The video is about 45 minutes, with a conversation at end..https://t.co/QZB340WJIm
Congratulations to @UCSB_English professor Yunte Huang (@yunte), recognized for his biography of the 20th-century film star Anna May Wong, "Daughter of the Dragon." 📕
Beyond thrilled for @yunte and his incredible 3/3 NBCC nominations for his Rendezvous with America trilogy: CHARLIE CHAN, INSEPARABLE, and now DAUGHTER OF THE DRAGON.
New issue alert! UC Santa Barbara Magazine is back with perspectives on our cultural fascination with weather, the current state of democracy, and more. Plus, highlights from around campus and our global Gaucho community. Catch the online edition at https://t.co/OnSs5rVRio.