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Making an American festival : Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown / Chiou-ling Yeh.
LIBRA GT4905 .Y44 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yeh, Chiou-ling, 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese New Year--California--San Francisco--History.
- Chinese New Year.
- Chinese Americans--California--San Francisco--Social life and customs.
- Chinese Americans.
- Manners and customs.
- History.
- Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.)--Social life and customs.
- Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.).
- California--San Francisco.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- Weaving together many voices and perspectives, this rich history opens a new window onto the evolution of one Chinese American community over the second half of the twentieth century. Chiou-ling Yeh traces the development of the Chinese New Year parade and beauty pageant in San Francisco from their inception in 1953 as part of an effort to enhance the Chinese business community's ties with American culture, business, and politics. Bringing to light the dynamics and major debates within the Chinese American community from the politics of the Cold War era to the youth rebellions of the sixties to late-twentieth-century identity politics, Yeh shows how this community negotiated its own public space within the larger society and created a new image for itself. What emerges is a fascinating picture of an ethnic community shaping and being shaped by transnational and national politics, economics, ethnic movements, feminism, and queer activism.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-295) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520253506
- 0520253507
- 9780520253513
- 0520253515
- OCLC:
- 212432491
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