Making an American Festival
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.qaquot;Compared to other pageants [our contestants] are much less bare; they wear stockings. ... thought that event organizers asked questions aquot;to get around the feminists, telling them, a#39;see, wea#39;re not just going for beauty, wea#39;re asking them ... aquot; The questions they ask the girls are stupid and the answers even more ridiculous .
| Title | : | Making an American Festival |
| Author | : | Chiou-ling Yeh |
| Publisher | : | Univ of California Press - 2008-08-03 |
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