The Telegraph
The early days of Hollywood produced some remarkable women, but Anna May Wong – the Asian-American actress whose “wild and shimmering life” story is told in Katie Gee Salisbury’s Not Your China Doll – was in a class of her own. Wong was the first non-Caucasian Hollywood star, and for decades, the only one from an Asian background. Born in 1905 in Los Angeles’s Chinatown to hard-working parents who owned and ran a laundry business, she began her career as an extra and quickly rose through the ran