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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Yeh, Chiou-ling, 1967-     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Yeh, Chiou-ling, 1967-       by title:      Making an American f...         MARC Display

Making an American festival : Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown / Chiou-ling Yeh. by Yeh, Chiou-ling, 1967- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008. 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. ISBN:  9780520253506 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520253507 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780520253513 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0520253515 (pbk. : alk. paper) Description:  xiv, 315 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 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. Requests:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 394.261 Ye Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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