The University of Pittsburgh Film Studies Department is hosting a talk by
Dr. Yiman Wang of the University of California Santa Cruz titled "
Who is Not Afraid of Contaminated Pleasure? Anna May Wong’s Thrilling Tear". Not much information exists about the talk, other than it starts at 6:00 pm in 407 Cathedral of Learning (
map). Wang has written a good deal about Anna Mae Wong, a pioneering Chinese-American actress who rose to prominence in the 1920s.