Literary Fiction

Yellowface

by Krystyn R. Moon

A scholarly examination of American popular culture's representation of Chinese people from the early nineteenth century through the 1920s. Moon traces the evolution of yellowface performance, musical productions, immigration politics, and the construction of Chinese otherness in American imagination. Rigorous and illuminating, the book exposes the deep roots of racial caricature and cultural appropriation.

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