Shanghai Express and Post-Film Author Talk w/ Katie Gee Salisbury
6pm doors & 7pm film
$13 GA & $10 OFS
Join us for a special 4K restoration of Shanghai Express. After the film concludes, Katie Gee Salisbury, the author of Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong, will be in attendance to discuss the life and career of Hollywood’s first Asian American movie star. Books will be available for purchase at the screening.
Dir: Josef von Sternberg / 1932 / 80 min

“Directed by Josef von Sternberg, this movie has style — a triumphant fusion of sin, glamour, shamelessness, art, and, perhaps, a furtive sense of humor.” – Pauline Kael, The New Yorker

About Katie Gee Salisbury:
Katie Gee Salisbury is the author of Not Your China Doll, a new biography of Anna May Wong, Hollywood’s first Asian American movie star. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Believer, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and elsewhere. She was a finalist for the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in 2021 and gave the TED Talk “As American as Chop Suey.” She also writes the newsletter Half-Caste Woman. A fifth-generation Chinese American who hails from Southern California, she now lives in Brooklyn.

Accessible Seating:

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