Making an American Festival : Chinese New Year in San Francisco’s Chinatown Paperback / softback
by Chiou-ling Yeh
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:336 pages, 12 b-w photographs
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:02/09/2008
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- ISBN:9780520253513
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:336 pages, 12 b-w photographs
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:02/09/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520253513