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Cheung, Floyd. "Kingdoms of Manly Style': Performing Chinese American Masculinity, 1865-1941," English Department, Tulane University, April 1999.
This dissertation studies performances of early Chinese American masculinity, juxtaposing Euro-American representations with Chinese American responses. Reading Chinese American sources such as ritual parades by the Tucson Chee Kung Tong, autobiographies by Yan Phou Lee and Yung Wing, and the novel And China Has Hands by H.T. Tsiang against Euro-American sources such as Henry Grimm’s play The Chinese Must Go and Pierton Dooner’s novel Last Days of the Republic, the dissertation concludes that contradictory stereotypes of Chinese American men as hypermasculine and emasculated reflect Euro-American anxieties about U.S. capitalism and imperialism. Furthermore, despite claims to the contrary, Chinese Americans from this period performed many styles of masculinity that engaged in antiracist politics.
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