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

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

Asian America

William Gow

274 pages first pub 2024 (view editions)

nonfiction history race
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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. Ch...

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