Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community

by William Gow

In 1938, China City opened near downtown Los Angeles. Featuring a recreation of the House of Wang set from MGM's The Good Earth, this new Chinatown employed many of the same Chinese Americans who performed as background extras in the 1937 film. Chinatown and Hollywood represented the two primary sites where Chinese Americans performed racial difference for popular audiences during the Chinese exclusion era. In Performing Chinatown,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150363809X
• ISBN13: 9781503638099
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"