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Making an American festival : Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown
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Making an American festival : Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown / Chiou-ling Yeh.
ISBN
9780520253506 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520253507 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520253513 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520253515 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.
Physical Description
xiv, 315 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 17, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-295) and index.
Contents
Making multicultural America : Cold War politics, ethnic celebrations, and Chinese America
Transnational celebrations in changing political climates
"In the traditions of China and in the freedom of America" : the making of the Chinese New Year festival
Constructing a "model minority" identity : the Miss Chinatown U.S.A. beauty pageant
Yellow power : race, class, gender, and activism
Heated debate on the ethnic beauty pageant
Hybridity in culture, memory, and politics
Selling Chineseness and marketing Chinese New Year : corporate sponsorship, television broadcasts, and counter memory
"We are one family" : queerness, transnationalism, and identity politics
Post-Cold War celebrations.
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