Anna May Wong, Part Two: The Dragon Dress
"I'm afraid that I'm a woman without a country." Anna May Wong, 1938, on taking her American clothes to China and finding she was foreign there too.
Part Two of two, covering 1931 to 1961: the Travis Banton dragon gown now in the Metropolitan Museum and where its dragon really comes from, the two parts she was refused for being too Chinese to play Chinese, the nine months in China, the auction of her own wardrobe, and the television series she pitched herself and which no longer exists.
Part One, The Certificate of Identity, covers 1905 to 1931.
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