Making an American Festival

Chinese New Year in San Francisco’s Chinatown

• Author(s): Chiou-ling Yeh,
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Pages: 315
• ISBN_10: 0520253515
  ISBN_13: 9780520253513
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / General , History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) , Social Science / Customs & Traditions , Social Science / Holidays (non-religious) , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander Studies ,

Description:... 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.