Screening Asia: Passing, performative translation, and reconfiguration

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Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Wang, Yiman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 51249143051     PISSN: 10679847     EISSN: 15278271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/10679847-2006-037     Document Type: Article

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14. Italics mine. Ezra Pound's edited version began to be serialized in Little Review in the September issue in 1919 and then was published as a monograph in 1936. For Fenollosa's original opening, including sections edited out by Pound, see Yunte Huang, Transpacific Displacement: Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), 20
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17. Publicity writings in English, Chinese, and European languages described Wong's exotic aura in different terms. However, they generally shared the common assumption of Wong's Chinese essence. For a critique of the essentialist discourse, see Yiman Wang, "The Art of Screen Passing: Anna May Wong's 'Yellow Yellowface' Performance in the Art Deco Era," Camera Obscura 20 (2005): 159-91
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