Making an American Festival: Chinese New Year in San Franciscos 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.

Product Info

ISBN: 0520253515

ISBN-13: 9780520253513

Publisher: University of California Press

Year: 2008-09-02

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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