 Even with all of her efforts, "The Curse of Quon Gwon" only had two screenings after its completion.A rough cut of the film was viewed in 1916 at the Kinema Theater and a formal premiere of the film was shown in 1917 but the film did not receive commercial distribution.This is cited for many reasons, the key one being that distributors were worried audiences would not respond to an Asian American narrative that did not identify or celebrate the racist tropes that had become familiar to white audiences.