Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and t. Gow**

Name: Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and t. Gow**
Brand: Stanford University Press

Stanford University Press

Performing Chinatown\nby William Gow\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 8\u20139 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: William Gow\nTitle: Performing Chinatown\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nPublisher: Stanford University Press\nPublication year: 2024\nISBN-13: 9781503639089\nISBN-10: 1503639088\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nIn 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. Chinatown and Hollywood represented the two primary sites where Chinese Americans performed racial difference for popular audiences during the Chinese exclusion era. In Performing Chinatown, historian Wil.