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Book SynopsisKrystyn R. Moon explores the contributions of writers, performers, producers, and consumers in order to demonstrate how popular music and performance has played an important role in constructing Chinese and Chinese American stereotypes. The book brings to life the rich musical period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Trade Review"
Yellowface details the theatrical and musical history of Chinese and Chinese American performance at a time when 'Asian American' identity was unheard of. It should be a welcome addition to Asian American studies and American cultural history, as well as theater and music history." -- Josephine Lee * author of Performing Asian America: Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage *
"Krystyn Moon has produced a finely detailed and nuanced study of China and Chinese Americans on the nineteenth-century American musical stage.
Yellowface is an important work for anyone interested in the history of American popular culture and race." -- Robert G. Lee * author of Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture *
"
Yellowface details the theatrical and musical history of Chinese and Chinese American performance at a time when 'Asian American' identity was unheard of. It should be a welcome addition to Asian American studies and American cultural history, as well as theater and music history." -- Josephine Lee * author of Performing Asian America: Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage *
"Krystyn Moon has produced a finely detailed and nuanced study of China and Chinese Americans on the nineteenth-century American musical stage.
Yellowface is an important work for anyone interested in the history of American popular culture and race." -- Robert G. Lee * author of Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture *
