Agency through Otherness: Portraits of Performers in Circus Route Books, 1875-1925Main MenuThe American Experiment: Circus in ContextCircus performers and American history timelineRouting the Circus: The Things They CarriedCircus Routes Map, 1875-1925Ethnological Congresses and the Spectacleby Rebecca FitzsimmonsOutsiders in Demand: Chinese and Japanese Immigrant Performersby Angela Yon and Mariah WahlShattering Gender Roles: Women in the Circusby Elizabeth HarmanSide Show Sounds: Black Bandleaders Respond to ExoticismAnnexed Circus Musicians by Elizabeth C. HartmanNative Performance and Identity in The Wild West Showby Mariah WahlShowmen's Rests: The Final CurtainCircus Cemetery Plots by Elizabeth C. HartmanList of PerformersPerformers covered in this exhibitBibliography & Further ReadingsBibliography and readings for each chapterAcknowledgementsAngela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1
Chinese People
12021-05-03T16:08:19-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1382945Tag Pageplain2021-05-04T06:57:35-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1This tag represents the exhibit author's unofficial variant of the LCSH tag "Chinese" (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024235). We find the official heading offered by LCSH is limiting and vague for the description of persons.
12021-04-26T11:44:24-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1Tracing the Origins of Yellowface123plain2021-05-28T14:00:01-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1
12021-04-23T09:30:14-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1Chang: "The Chinese Giant"30plain2021-06-22T15:17:38-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1
12021-04-23T10:20:58-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1Moy Kee: Chinese Mayor of America27plain2021-05-19T16:43:20-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1
12021-04-23T09:51:15-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1Che Mah: Short-Statured Chinese Performer23plain2021-05-30T15:08:15-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1
12021-04-22T08:29:41-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1High Wires and Traveling Shows: Portraits of Performers14plain10520132021-05-29T13:34:33-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1