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Making an American festival : Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown
- Title
- Making an American festival : Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown / Chiou-ling Yeh.
- Author
- Yeh, Chiou-ling, 1967-
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 315 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 08-7076
- ISBN
- 9780520253506 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0520253507 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780520253513 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0520253515 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008007774
- OCLC
- 212432491
- Author
- Yeh, Chiou-ling, 1967-
- Title
- Making an American festival : Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown / Chiou-ling Yeh.
- Imprint
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-295) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 08-7076