“Speaking German Like Nobody’s Business”: Anna May Wong, Walter Benjamin, and the Possibilities of Asian American Cosmopolitanism
In the summer of 1928 in Berlin, the noted German Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) and Chinese American actress Anna May Wong (1905–1961) shared an unlikely encounter that set in relief European and American conceptions of modernity as well as white European intellectual and American r...
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eScholarship Publishing, University of California
2012-06-01
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| Series: | Journal of Transnational American Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://escholarship.org/uc/item/16v4g0b1 |