Making an American Festival by Chiou-Ling Yeh
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.
"Yeh has written one of the best books on post-World War II Chinese American life in recent years" -- K. Scott Wong Journal Of American Ethnic History "Yeh's fine study will help us comprehend such crucial issues as ethnic identity, racial negotiation, and cultural infusion in our multicultural America." Journal Of American History
Chiou-ling Yeh is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at San Diego State University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520253513 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520253515 |
| Title | Making an American Festival |
| Author | Chiou-Ling Yeh |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 2008-09-02 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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