Making an American Festival Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown
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This provocative history of the largest annual Chinese celebration in the United States-the Chinese New Year parade and beauty pageant in San Francisco-opens a new window onto the evolution of one Chinese American community over the second half of the twentieth century. In a vividly detailed account that incorporates many different voices and perspectives, Chiou-ling Yeh explores the origins of these public events and charts how, from their beginning in 1953, they developed as a result of Chinese business community ties with American culture, business, and politics. What emerges is a fascinating picture of how an ethnic community shaped and was shaped by transnational and national politics, economics, ethnic movements, feminism, and queer activism.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780520253513 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Imprint: | University of California Press |
Pub date: | 05 Sep 2008 |
DEWEY: | 394.261 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 304 |
Weight: | 456g |
Height: | 228mm |
Width: | 153mm |
Spine width: | 18mm |