Flapper Chic

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Los Angeles-born Anna May Wong (1905-1961) embodied flapper chic while challenging traditional ideas of Chinese womanhood. She's the subject of a new retrospective at the Museum of the Moving Image from March 4 through April 16, with screenings of more than 20 movies. More information at »movingimage.us

Leonard talks to Shirley Jennifer Lim, author of the forthcoming Performing the Modern: Anna May Wong and Josephine Baker.

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