Anna May Wong’s Live Tours Across the United States: Alternating Star Persona

Emma Mendez | University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

A comparative study on the two live tours during the 1920s and 1930s of Anna May Wong. This essay traces the changing reception of Wong’s career and identity during these two tours as a case study, demonstrating affordances of vaudeville tours for performers of color and these circuits relationships to film stardom.