eBook - ePub
Making an American Festival
Chinese New Year in San Franciscoās Chinatown
- 336 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
About this book
This provocative history of the largest annual Chinese celebration in the United Statesāthe Chinese New Year parade and beauty pageant in San Franciscoāopens 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.
This provocative history of the largest annual Chinese celebration in the United Statesāthe Chinese New Year parade and beauty pageant in San Franciscoāopens a new window onto the evolution of one Chinese American community over the second half of the twe
This provocative history of the largest annual Chinese celebration in the United Statesāthe Chinese New Year parade and beauty pageant in San Franciscoāopens a new window onto the evolution of one Chinese American community over the second half of the twe
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION Making Multicultural America Cold War Politics, Ethnic Celebrations, and Chinese America
- ONE Transnational Celebrations in Changing Political Climates
- TWO āIn the Traditions of China and in the Freedom ofAmericaā The Making of the Chinese New Year Festival
- THREE Constructing A "Model MinorityāIdentity The Miss Chinatown U.S.A. Beauty Pageant
- FOUR Yellow Power Race, Class, Gender, and Activism
- FIVE Heated Debate on the Ethnic Beauty Pageant
- SIX Hybridity in Culture, Memory, and Politics
- SEVEN Selling Chineseness and Marketing Chinese New Year Corporate Sponsorship, Television Broadcasts, and Counter Memory
- EIGHT "We Are One Family" Queerness, Transnationalism, and Identity Politics
- EPILOGUE PostāCold War Celebrations
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX