In her memoir The World of Nancy Kwan, the actress who was born in Hong Kong tells her story of being Asian in Hollywood in a different era.

In “The World of Nancy Kwan,” a memoir by the pioneer Hollywood star, we hear from the real-life woman who played Suzie Wong.

Demure, submissive and erotic, Suzie Wong is that bigger-than-life stereotype, that caricature Asian women grew up with in the U.S. We may have also secretly hoped to play that geisha-like image to ...

as the roles were taken by white actors wearing strange slant-eyed makeup. Kwan was born in Hong Kong in 1939. Her father was Chinese, an architect with a love for movies. Her mother was English ...