Yunxiang Gao (高云翔) is Professor of History at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her research focuses primarily on transpacific cultural history through a multilingual approach. She has written two books: Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 2021) and Sporting Gender: Women Athletes and Celebrity-Making during China’s National Crisis, 1931–1945 (University of British Columbia Press, 2013). Gao is currently finishing a biography tentatively titled ‘Soo Yong: A Hollywood Actress and Cosmopolitan of the Asian Diasporas’.