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

by Chiou-ling Yeh

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520253515
• ISBN13: 9780520253513
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"