May Wong's life, career, and legacy reflect many complex issues which remain decades after her death, Anthony Chan points out that her place in Asian-American cinematic history, as its first female star, is permanent. An illustrated biography for children, Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story, was published in 2009. In 2016, the novelist Peter Ho Davies published The Fortunes, a saga of Chinese-American experiences centered around four characters, one of whom is a fictionalized Anna May Wong, imagined from childhood until her death. In a conversation published in the 2017 paperback edition, Davies described his novel as an exploration of the Chinese-American quest for authenticity—a third way of being Chinese-American—with Anna May Wong representing an iconic example of that struggle. On January 22, 2020, a Google Doodle celebrated Wong, commemorating the 97th anniversary of the day The Toll of the Sea went into general release. In 2020, actress Michelle Krusiec played Wong in Ryan Murphy's Netflix drama series, Hollywood. The limited series tells an alternate history of Hollywood in the 1940s. Also in 2020, her life story was told as part of PBS's documentary Asian Americans. In 2021, the United States Mint announced that Wong would be among the first women depicted on the reverse of the quarter coin as a part of the American Women quarters series. When the quarters with her depicted on them went into circulation in 2022, Wong became the first Asian-American depicted on American coinage. Li Jun Li has been cast in Damien Chazelle's film Babylon, playing a role inspired by Wong. A biopic from Working Title Films is in development, with British actress Gemma Chan set to portray Wong. Partial filmography The Red Lantern (1919) debut – uncredited Bits of Life (1921) The Toll of the Sea (1922) as Lotus Flower The Thief of Bagdad (1924) as a Mongol Slave Peter Pan (1924) as Tiger Lily A Trip to Chinatown (1926) as Ohati Old San Francisco (1927) as A Flower of the Orient Piccadilly (1929) as Shosho Elstree Calling (1930) as Herself The Flame of Love (1930) as Hai Tang The Road to Dishonour (1930) as Hai Tang Hai-Tang (1930) as Hai Tang Daughter of the Dragon (1931) as Princess Ling Moy Shanghai Express (1932) as Hui Fei A Study in Scarlet (1933) as Mrs. Pyke Limehouse Blues (1934) as Tu Tuan Daughter of Shanghai (1937) as Lan Ying Lin When Were You