Leong, Karen J.: The China Mystique: Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, Mayling Soong, and the Transformation of American Orientalism.(Book review)
Asian Affairs: An American Review, January, 2007 by May-Lee Chai
Leong, Karen J. The China Mystique: Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, Mayling Soong, and the Transformation of American Orientalism Berkeley: University of California Press 236 pp., $55.00 cloth, $21.95 paper ISBN: 0-520-24422-2 cloth ISBN: 0-520-24423-0 paper Publication Date: July 2005
Karen J. Leong's masterful reexamination of three of the most famous women associated with China in the twentieth century--Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, and Mayling Soong--may very well revolutionize our understanding of the way America's image of China and the Chinese people was constructed. And ...
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