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What film featured Anna May Wong in a positive Chinese role for Paramount?

  • Daughter of Shanghai

  • The Red Lantern

  • The Thief of Bagdad

  • The Good Earth

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The answer is "Daughter of Shanghai", a 1937 film starring Anna May Wong. It was a significant departure from the stereotypical and exoticized roles Wong was often confined to. In "Daughter of Shanghai", she played a strong and independent Chinese woman, challenging the prevailing stereotypes of Asian women in Hollywood at the time.
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