Picturing Chinatown
Art and Orientalism in San Francisco (review)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12469443 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nancy Um (0000-0002-7551-8942, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 185-188 |
| Publication date | 2002-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Asian American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1096-8598 • E-ISSN: 1097-2129 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jaas.2003.0009 |
| OpenAlex | W2085428898 |
| Language | EN |
In Picturing Chinatown, Anthony Lee renders deep the surface of the photographic and painted picture plane. Six chapters weave imagery along the streets and the alleys of San Francisco's Chinatown, resulting in a remarkable recasting of a diverse corpus of historical photography, prints, paintings and entertainment. As he states in the introduction, Lee's objective is to trace Chinatown's "history of imaginings" from 1850 to 1950, a period which witnessed significant shifts in the status of Chinese American citizenship. (7) While Lee himself identifies his chapters as "case studies, each devoted to the works of particular artists," it is clear that the modalities of each of these focused parts far surpass a single-faceted art historical survey
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Chinatown · Entertainment · Literature · Orientalism · Painting · Photography · Visual arts · Asian American and Pacific Histories · History
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |