Making an American Festival: Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520253513)

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.

Author: Chiou-Ling Yeh
ISBN-10: 0520253515
ISBN-13: 9780520253513
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 09/02/2008
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.06w x 0.81d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 10/10/2008 pg. 20