Table of Contents for Performing Chinatown

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

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

A Note on the Romanization of Chinese

Names and Places

Introduction

PART I: CHINATOWN TOURISM

1.Chinatown Pastiche

2.China City and New Chinatown on Broadway

PART II: HOLLYWOOD EXTRAS

3.Chinese American Extras During the Great Depression

4.Oppositional Spectatorship and The Good Earth

PART III: WARTIME LOS ANGELES

5.Performing Japanese Villains in Wartime Hollywood

6.Mei Wah Girls' Drum Corps and the 1938 Moon Festival

Conclusion

Epilogue

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

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