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Making an American Festival: Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown | 
 enlarge | Author: Chiou-ling Yeh
Publisher: University of California Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1475958
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0520253515
Dewey Decimal Number: 394.261
EAN: 9780520253513
ASIN: 0520253515
Publication Date: September 2, 2008
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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.
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