| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Yellowface: Creating the Chinese in American Popular Music and Performance, 1850s–1920s. By Krystyn R. Moon. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2005. xiv, 220 pp. Cloth, $62.00, ISBN 0-8135-3506-9. Paper, $23.95, ISBN 0-8135-3507-7.)

In six chapters, Yellowface traces the image of the Chinese and the use of Chinese-inspired motifs in American music and performance, and it is the first extended, survey-like consideration of these kinds of representations since James Moy's Marginal Sights: Staging the Chinese in America (1993) and Robert Lee's more widely strewn Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture (1999). The story of Yellowface begins in the era of the gold rush, when the Chinese first began to immigrate in significant numbers to the United States, and ends around the time of the 1924 Exclusion Act, when the Chinese were legally barred from further entry. Krystyn R. Moon makes a rough correspondence between the musical and performance-based representations of the Chinese and this history of immigration and exclusion.

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