Sam Staggs wrote a terrific book about "Imitation of Life" a couple of years ago, "Born To Be Hurt". It's almost as good as "All About All About Eve", his dissection of that movie. He really gets into the politics and social world of it. I dunno from Ming Wong, but I could watch Douglas Sirk movies from here to eternity (OK, that's Fred Zinnemann, but Christ on a cracker, this, "Written On The Wind", "Magnificent Obsession", and especially "All That Heaven Allows" are the pinnacle of Old Hollywood. Masterpieces all. None of today's punks, your Spielbergs and Scorceses, can touch him.
Sounds like something someone who'd pass for white in Arizona would say.