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Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown

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University of California Press
Language
English
Pages
315

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Subjects
Chinese Americans, Chinese New Year, History, Social life and customs, Chinese americans, China, social life and customs, San francisco (calif.), social life and customs
Places
Calif.) Chinatown (San Francisco, California, Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.), San Francisco

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Making an American festival: Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown
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Table of Contents

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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
394.261
Library of Congress
GT4905 .Y44 2008, GT4905.Y44 2008

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
315

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OL16637027M
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9780520253506, 9780520253513
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2008007774
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212432491
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6743752
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