CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Beck, Fanni Zsófia |
|---|---|
| Title | Miss Chinatown USA |
| Summary | The research takes Miss Chinatown USA, a nation-wide diasporic Chinese beauty contest in America in its focus. Adopting a combined historical and ethnographic method, it discusses how the ideal of Miss Chinatown evolved, and what role does it play in contemporary Chinese America. The research discusses how the ideal represented by the queen reflects the contested question of belonging in the Chinese-American context was framed by macro politics, negotiated by the diasporic community, and lived individually by the contestants through the course of the past sixty years. |
| Supervisor | Pogonyi, Szabolcs |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/beck_fanni.pdf |
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