Chiou-Ling Yeh
Biographic Data
| ID | 820005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chiou-Ling Yeh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chiou-Ling |
| FAMILY NAME | Yeh |
| SIGNATURE | YEH C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Associate Professor, Department of History, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA, [email protected] |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8255-2754 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Representation of Third World Militant Femininity: Vietnamese Militiawomen in Communist Chinese Vietnam War Propaganda
Although scholars have analyzed the significance of Vietnamese revolutionary women during the Vietnam War for the global Left, none examine their impact on mass mobilization in the People’s Republic of China ( prc ). Assessing Vietnamese militiawomen posters that Beijing created, this article argues that the imagery of militiawomen invokes what the author labels “Third World militant femininity” to achieve three goals. First, it mobilized the Chi…
Anti-American Expressions: The 1957 Taipei Incident and Chinese in the Philippines, Thailand, and Hong Kong
Although scholars have investigated the intricacies of anti-Americanism, few have examined the factors that affected the abilities of minorities or colonized people to protest U.S. policies. This article compares and contrasts the responses of Chinese in the Philippines, Thailand, and Hong Kong to the May 24th Incident of 1957, when 25,000 Chinese attacked the U.S. embassy and ransacked the U.S. Information Service Office in Taipei, Taiwan, due t…
The Children of Chinatown: Growing Up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850–1920
A Saga of Democracy”: Toy Len Goon, American Mother of the Year, and the Cultural Cold War
In 1952 Toy Len Goon, an unknown Chinese immigrant, a widowed mother of eight, and a laundry shop owner, was selected to be Maine Mother of the Year and later won the national title as American Mother of the Year. The news was circulated widely in domestic media, propaganda abroad, the Chinese American press, and newspapers in Taiwan. This article examines the meaning of how a self-employed Chinese mother, against the dominant discourse of white,…
Making an American Festival: Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown
This provocative history of the largest annual Chinese celebration in the United States—the Chinese New Year parade and beauty pageant in San Francisco—opens a new window onto the evolution of one Chinese American community over the second half of the twentieth century. In a vividly detailed account that incorporates many different voices and perspectives, Chiou-ling Yeh explores the origins of these public events and charts how, from their begin…
Making an American FestivalChinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown: Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown
This history of the largest annual Chinese celebration in the United States—the Chinese New Year Festival and beauty pageant in San Francisco—opens a new window onto the evolution of one Chinese American community over the second half of the twentieth century. In a detailed account that incorporates many different voices and perspectives, the book explores the origins of these public events and charts how, from their beginning in 1953, they devel…
Pure Beauty: Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants (review)
Reviewed by: Pure Beauty: Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants Yeh Chiou-Ling Pure Beauty: Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants. By Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain's Pure Beauty has added to the growing scholarship in Asian American studies that pays attention to beauty pageants as an important site, where ethnic culture and nationalism could be…
Celebrating Freedom and Ethnicity
Festivals of Freedom: Memory and Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808-1915. By Mitch Kachun. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003. 339 pages. $39.95 (cloth). Japanese American Celebration and Conflict: A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival, 1934-1990. By Lon Kurashige. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 274 pages. $18.95 (paper). In recent years, public celebrations have become an important site…
Utilization of well-baby care visits provided by Taiwan's National Health Insurance Program
In the Traditions of China and in the Freedom of America: The Making of San Francisco's Chinese New Year Festivals
This article contends that Chinese American leaders, provoked by the anti-Communist hysteria of the 1950s, exoticized ethnic celebrations in 1953, believing that if they fulfilled an American orientalist imagination, they could distinguish themselves from "Red" Chinese and improve San Francisco Chinatown's business. By rooting ethnic cultural preservation in the Cold War rhetoric of "freedom" and "democracy," these leaders actively chose certain …
Seeking Modernity in China’s Name: Chinese Students in the United States, 1900-1927
Book Review| April 01 2002 Seeking Modernity in China’s Name: Chinese Students in the United States, 1900-1927 Seeking Modernity in China’s Name: Chinese Students in the United States, 1900-1927, Weili Ye. Chiou-ling Yeh Chiou-ling Yeh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2002) 21 (3): 91–92. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502862 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo …
In the Traditions of China and in the Freedom of America: The Making of San Francisco's Chinese New Year Festivals
This article contends that Chinese American leaders, provoked by the anti-Communist hysteria of the 1950s, exoticized ethnic celebrations in 1953, believing that if they fulfilled an American orientalist imagination, they could distinguish themselves from "Red" Chinese and improve San Francisco Chinatown's business. By rooting ethnic cultural preservation in the Cold War rhetoric of "freedom" and "democracy," these leaders actively chose certain …
Seeking Modernity in China’s Name: Chinese Students in the United States, 1900-1927
Book Review| April 01 2002 Seeking Modernity in China’s Name: Chinese Students in the United States, 1900-1927 Seeking Modernity in China’s Name: Chinese Students in the United States, 1900-1927, Weili Ye. Chiou-ling Yeh Chiou-ling Yeh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2002) 21 (3): 91–92. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502862 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo …
Seeking Modernity in China’s Name: Chinese Students in the United States, 1900-1927
Book Review| April 01 2002 Seeking Modernity in China’s Name: Chinese Students in the United States, 1900-1927 Seeking Modernity in China’s Name: Chinese Students in the United States, 1900-1927, Weili Ye. Chiou-ling Yeh Chiou-ling Yeh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2002) 21 (3): 91–92. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502862 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo …
Utilization of well-baby care visits provided by Taiwan's National Health Insurance Program
In the Traditions of China and in the Freedom of America: The Making of San Francisco's Chinese New Year Festivals
This article contends that Chinese American leaders, provoked by the anti-Communist hysteria of the 1950s, exoticized ethnic celebrations in 1953, believing that if they fulfilled an American orientalist imagination, they could distinguish themselves from "Red" Chinese and improve San Francisco Chinatown's business. By rooting ethnic cultural preservation in the Cold War rhetoric of "freedom" and "democracy," these leaders actively chose certain …
Celebrating Freedom and Ethnicity
Festivals of Freedom: Memory and Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808-1915. By Mitch Kachun. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003. 339 pages. $39.95 (cloth). Japanese American Celebration and Conflict: A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival, 1934-1990. By Lon Kurashige. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 274 pages. $18.95 (paper). In recent years, public celebrations have become an important site…
Making an American Festival: Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown
This provocative history of the largest annual Chinese celebration in the United States—the Chinese New Year parade and beauty pageant in San Francisco—opens a new window onto the evolution of one Chinese American community over the second half of the twentieth century. In a vividly detailed account that incorporates many different voices and perspectives, Chiou-ling Yeh explores the origins of these public events and charts how, from their begin…
Making an American FestivalChinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown: Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown
This history of the largest annual Chinese celebration in the United States—the Chinese New Year Festival and beauty pageant in San Francisco—opens a new window onto the evolution of one Chinese American community over the second half of the twentieth century. In a detailed account that incorporates many different voices and perspectives, the book explores the origins of these public events and charts how, from their beginning in 1953, they devel…
Pure Beauty: Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants (review)
Reviewed by: Pure Beauty: Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants Yeh Chiou-Ling Pure Beauty: Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants. By Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain's Pure Beauty has added to the growing scholarship in Asian American studies that pays attention to beauty pageants as an important site, where ethnic culture and nationalism could be…
The Children of Chinatown: Growing Up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850–1920
A Saga of Democracy”: Toy Len Goon, American Mother of the Year, and the Cultural Cold War
In 1952 Toy Len Goon, an unknown Chinese immigrant, a widowed mother of eight, and a laundry shop owner, was selected to be Maine Mother of the Year and later won the national title as American Mother of the Year. The news was circulated widely in domestic media, propaganda abroad, the Chinese American press, and newspapers in Taiwan. This article examines the meaning of how a self-employed Chinese mother, against the dominant discourse of white,…
Anti-American Expressions: The 1957 Taipei Incident and Chinese in the Philippines, Thailand, and Hong Kong
Although scholars have investigated the intricacies of anti-Americanism, few have examined the factors that affected the abilities of minorities or colonized people to protest U.S. policies. This article compares and contrasts the responses of Chinese in the Philippines, Thailand, and Hong Kong to the May 24th Incident of 1957, when 25,000 Chinese attacked the U.S. embassy and ransacked the U.S. Information Service Office in Taipei, Taiwan, due t…
Representation of Third World Militant Femininity: Vietnamese Militiawomen in Communist Chinese Vietnam War Propaganda
Although scholars have analyzed the significance of Vietnamese revolutionary women during the Vietnam War for the global Left, none examine their impact on mass mobilization in the People’s Republic of China ( prc ). Assessing Vietnamese militiawomen posters that Beijing created, this article argues that the imagery of militiawomen invokes what the author labels “Third World militant femininity” to achieve three goals. First, it mobilized the Chi…
Art (6 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (6 works) · History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works)