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Jan 10, 2025 | 
fivebooks.com | Jonathan Eig |Gregg Hecimovich |Yunte Huang |Rachel Shteir
It’s brilliant to have you back on the site—for the fourth time—to talk about the books that made the National Book Critics Circle shortlist for the best recent biography. Did you notice any trends among the submissions for the 2024 biography prize? Biographies rarely break news, but two of our finalists did so months or years before publication.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
smithsonianmag.com | Yunte Huang |Stephanie Stebich
The Best Books of 2023 A Smithsonian magazine special report Curators and staffers satisfied their endless curiosity with novels, short stories, biographies, art collections and journalistic reporting In April this year, Smithsonian scientists in collaboration with NASA launched a revolutionary new tool into space from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
aaari.info | Yunte Huang
Dr. Yunte Huang is a distinguished scholar, best-selling author, past Guggenheim Fellow, and currently a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is fluent in Chinese and English; and has translated Chinese poetry into English, and The Pisan Cantos of Ezra Pound into Chinese.
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Sep 23, 2023 | 
bookreporter.com | Yunte Huang
Long before Everything Everywhere All at Once propelled leading Asian stars into the Oscar realm, movies typically featured Asian and Asian American actors in lesser, sidekick or ancillary roles. But the 2022 film sensation put Asian performers front and center, and the world outside Hollywood took notice.
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Aug 29, 2023 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Yunte Huang
The new book “Daughter of the Dragon” is a reclamation of the Chinese American movie star Anna May Wong.
Author Yunte Huang talks with host Scott Tong about anti-Chinese xenophobia, sexism and ageism toward women in Hollywood and the U.S.
Book excerpt: ‘Daughter of the Dragon’
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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Aug 22, 2023 | 
crimereads.com | Yunte Huang
From the earliest days, Hollywood and its overseas competitors and wannabes were addicted to Chinatown. In tandem with Limehouse fiction, Fu Manchu series, and Charlie Chan mysteries, the so-called China flicks—or, ahem, yellow flicks—exploited the stereotypical eerie ambience of Chinatown as the cinematic obbligato.
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Aug 12, 2023 | 
thefreelibrary.com | Yunte Huang
* Daughter of the DragonBy Yunte HuangBiographyAnna May Wong (1905-1961) was Hollywood's first great Chinese American actress. At 15, she had her first starring role in a silent film. Shortly thereafter, she played opposite film legend Douglas Fairbanks in The Thief of Bagdad (at 5 feet, 7 inches, she was taller than him). She was a friend, and perhaps a lover, of Marlene Dietrich.
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Aug 1, 2023 | 
newyorkfolk.com | James White |Ann Patchett |Yunte Huang |Elizabeth Acevedo
Summer is when lovers of books feel freest to read without restraint—while lying on a beach, swinging on a porch, or perching on a stoop at the end of a sweaty day. The Atlantic’s writers and editors want to help in this endeavor, and so we’ve selected books to match some warm-weather moods. Maybe you’d like , or you want to or take a deep dive into one topic. Perhaps you have a yen to or rediscover an old gem. Some readers just want to . Here are 24 books you should grab before the summer ends.
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Aug 1, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Yunte Huang |Brandon Stanton | |Stephanie Johnson
An attentive biography of an underrated Hollywood icon. Following his first two books on significant Chinese American figures, Charlie Chan and Inseparable, Huang turns his attention to Anna May Wong (1905-1961). The author capably tracks Wong’s life and career, creating a tender, fair portrait of an important performer.
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Jun 23, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Molly Guptill Manning |Nikhil Goyal |Jennifer Vanderbes |Yunte Huang
Joseph McGill and Herb Frazier. Hachette, $29 (352p) ISBN 978-0-306-82966-6As the founder of the Slave Dwelling Project, historic preservationist McGill has not only raised funds and awareness in support of the preservation of enslaved people’s dwellings but has stayed overnight in more than 200 of these structures across 25 states.
