Book Talk with William Gow - "Performing Chinatown"
Thu 5/16/2024 • 4PM - 5:15PM PDT
Distinctive Collections Classroom, Charles E. Young Research Library, Level A
Professor William Gow (CSU Sacramento) will present highlights from his new book, Performing Chinatown (Stanford University Press, 2024) and have a conversation with Dr. Kelly Fong and Dr. Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi from UCLA’s Asian American Studies Department. Performing Chinatown "retells the long-overlooked history of the ways that Los Angeles Chinatown shaped Hollywood and how Hollywood, in turn, shaped perceptions of Asian American identity."