Making an American FestivalChinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown

Abstract

This history of the largest annual Chinese celebration in the United States—the Chinese New Year Festival 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 detailed account that incorporates many different voices and perspectives, the book 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 picture of how an ethnic community shaped and was shaped by transnational and national politics, economics, ethnic movements, feminism, and queer activism.

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