Performing Chinatown

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"In Performing Chinatown, William Gow illuminates the history of the Chinese in the American imagination from Chinatown tours to portrayals of Chinese in motion pictures, and the ways in which the Los Angeles Chinatown community benefited from its proximity to and participation in Hollywood."
-Lisa See, author of Lady Tan's Circle of Women "Performing Chinatown superbly weaves together social history and the history of cinema, grounded in Los Angeles in both space and time. Combining these two disparate historical approaches, this book is timely, thoughtful, and engaged historical scholarship."
-William Deverell, University of Southern California "A must-read for anyone interested in race, representation, and Asian American history. Taking to heart the voices and experiences of Chinese Americans, while refusing to shy away from difficult issues, William Gow's engaging writing expands our understanding of the seemingly ordinary people who create extraordinary communities on the ground and on-screen."
-Catherine Ceniza Choy, author of Asian American Histories of the United States "Drawing from an interdisciplinary approach and extensive primary sources that include oral interviews, archival collections, and family materials-[Performing Chinatown] is a powerful record of Chinese American lived experiences."-Ang Li, Society for U.S. Intellectual History "Performing Chinatown enriches what may have seemed the already over-written terrain of Hollywood Chinese. In doing so, Gow recovers the social and labour history priorities of the first generation of Asian Americanists which he melds with perceptive cultural critiques regarding orientalist performance and production to produce this engaged and engaging exploration of how everyday individuals negotiated the racism of capitalist image-making industries in claiming livelihoods as ethnicized subjects."-Madeline Y. Hsu, Pacific Affairs