Making an American Festival
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-25351-3 (ISBN)
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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.
Chiou-ling Yeh is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at San Diego State University.
list of illustrations acknowledgments Introduction / Making Multicultural America: Cold War Politics, Ethnic Celebrations, and Chinese America 1. Transnational Celebrations in Changing Political Climates 2. "In the Traditions of China and in the Freedom of America": The Making of the Chinese New Year Festival 3. Constructing a "Model Minority" Identity: The Miss Chinatown U.S.A. Beauty Pageant 4. Yellow Power: Race, Class, Gender, and Activism 5. Heated Debate on the Ethnic Beauty Pageant 6. Hybridity in Culture, Memory, and Politics 7. Selling Chineseness and Marketing Chinese New Year: Corporate Sponsorship, Television Broadcasts, and Counter Memory 8. "We Are One Family": Queerness, Transnationalism, and Identity Politics Epilogue / Post--Cold War Celebrations notes bibliography index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.9.2008 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 12 b-w photographs |
| Verlagsort | Berkerley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-520-25351-5 / 0520253515 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-25351-3 / 9780520253513 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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