Making an American festival : Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Yeh, Chiou-ling, 1967-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008]
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.

Table of 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.