Making an American festival
Subtitle: Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown
By: Chiou-ling Yeh.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780520253506; 9780520253513
Subjects: Chinese New Year -- California -- San Francisco -- History; Chinese Americans -- California -- San Francisco -- Social life and customs; Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Transnational celebrations in changing political climates; title: "In the traditions of China and in the freedom of America" : the making of the Chinese New Year festival; title: Constructing a "model minority" identity : the Miss Chinatown U.S.A. beauty pageant; title: Yellow power : race, class, gender, and activism; title: Heated debate on the ethnic beauty pageant; title: Hybridity in culture, memory, and politics; title: Selling chineseness and marketing Chinese New Year : corporate sponsorship, television broadcasts, and counter memory; title: "We are one family" : queerness, transnationalism, and identity politics.