Yellowface: creating the Chinese in American popular music and performance, 1850s-1920s

Moon, Krystyn R.

Krystyn R. Moon

2006, c2005

ISBN(s)

0813535417 (E-Book)

Subject

American: General & Multiperiod

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Ill. 32e.

Ill. 7a.

Courtesy of the California History Room, California State Library, Sacramento.

Portrait of Lee Tung Foo in a Scottish costume.

Ill. 45. Portrait of Lee Tung Foo in a Scottish costume.

Courtesy of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana—Hair, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Smithsonian Institution.

Chinese and Japanese character wigs from the Catalogue of Theatrical and Society Hair Goods.

Ill. 29. Chinese and Japanese character wigs from the Catalogue of Theatrical and Society Hair Goods.

Chinese Music

Ill. 26b.

Ill. 10e.

Ill. 4b.

Ill. 37b.

"Chinese Popular Air No. 1" (1805), transcribed by John Barrow in Travels in China.

Ill. 24. "Chinese Popular Air No. 1" (1805), transcribed by John Barrow in Travels in China.

Courtesy of Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin.

Portrait of the Chinese Whoopee Review.

Ill. 39. Portrait of the Chinese Whoopee Review.

Ill. 7b.

Ill. 3a.

Courtesy of the National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Portrait of Chung Hwa Comedy Four in tuxedos.

Ill. 41. Portrait of Chung Hwa Comedy Four in tuxedos.

Journal Abbreviation	Label	URL
ATJ	23.1 (Spring 2006): 217-220	http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/asian_theatre_journal/v023/23.1kaplan.html
TJ	57.3 (October 2005): 529-531	http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theatre_journal/v057/57.3steen.html

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Yellowface: creating the Chinese in American popular music and performance, 1850s-1920s

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Ill. 32e.

Ill. 7a.

Portrait of Lee Tung Foo in a Scottish costume.

Chinese and Japanese character wigs from the Catalogue of Theatrical and Society Hair Goods.

Chinese Music

Ill. 26b.

Ill. 10e.

Ill. 4b.

Ill. 37b.

"Chinese Popular Air No. 1" (1805), transcribed by John Barrow in Travels in China.

Portrait of the Chinese Whoopee Review.

Ill. 7b.

Ill. 3a.

Portrait of Chung Hwa Comedy Four in tuxedos.

Ill. 10b.

Ill. 32b.

Ill. 35c.

Ill. 7d.

Ill. 37g.

Chinese Serenade