Agency through Otherness: Portraits of Performers in Circus Route Books, 1875-1925 Main Menu Introduction Introduction to the book and information about ways to navigate the content. The American Experiment: Circus in Context Circus performers and American history timeline Routing the Circus: The Things They Carried Circus Routes Map, 1875-1925 Ethnological Congresses and the Spectacle by Rebecca Fitzsimmons Outsiders in Demand: Chinese and Japanese Immigrant Performers by Angela Yon and Mariah Wahl Shattering Gender Roles: Women in the Circus by Elizabeth Harman Side Show Sounds: Black Bandleaders Respond to Exoticism Annexed Circus Musicians by Elizabeth C. Hartman Native Performance and Identity in The Wild West Show by Mariah Wahl Showmen's Rests: The Final Curtain Circus Cemetery Plots by Elizabeth C. Hartman List of Performers Performers covered in this exhibit Bibliography & Further Readings Bibliography and readings for each chapter Acknowledgements Creative Commons License

Chinese Performers

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This tag represents the exhibit author's unofficial variant of the LCSH tag "Foreign workers, Chinese" (https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85003509.html). We find the official heading offered by LCSH is limiting and unnecessarily othering of non-citizen performers from China, who were often denied the opportunity to pursue citizenship by racist US foreign policy.

Contents of this tag:

  1. Afong Moy: The Museum and Commercialization of Chinese Bodies
  2. Social Constructions
  3. Ethnological Congresses and the Spectacle
  4. Outsiders in Demand: Chinese and Japanese Immigrant Performers
  5. Chang: "The Chinese Giant"
  6. Policy, Immigration, and the Labor of Japanese and Chinese Performers
  7. Moy Kee: Chinese Mayor of America
  8. Che Mah: Short-Statured Chinese Performer
  9. High Wires and Traveling Shows: Portraits of Performers