Prompt Project # 22: Exotic
“Up to that time I had been more of an American flapper than Chinese.” When she landed in her paternal hometown of Taishan, the locals received her with disbelief: “Many women could not believe I really existed,” she later relayed, “they had seen me on the screen but they thought I was simply a picture invented by a machine.”
- Phoebe Chen, Seeing and Being Scene; A new biography of Chinese American movie star Anna May Wong
This gorgeous headdress inspired by Anna May Wong, by Gigi Whitesong is available at The Row House.
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Prompt Project # 22: Exotic
“Up to that time I had been more of an American flapper than Chinese.” When she landed in her paternal hometown of Taishan, the locals received her with disbelief: “Many women could not believe I really existed,” she later relayed, “they had seen me on the screen but they thought I was simply a picture invented by a machine.”
- Phoebe Chen, Seeing and Being Scene; A new biography of Chinese American movie star Anna May Wong
This gorgeous headdress inspired by Anna May Wong, by Gigi Whitesong is available at The Row House.
Visit Akado Gokudo.