Choreographing Asian America

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Choreographing ASIAN AMERICA This page intentionally left blank Choreographing ASIAN AMERICA Yutian Wong WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS Middletown, Connecticut Published by Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT 06459 www.wesleyan.edu/wespress 2010 ∫ Yutian Wong All rights reserved Printed in U.S.A. 5 4 3 2 1 Portions of chapter 1 and the epilogue originally appeared in ‘‘Towards a New Asian American Dance Theory,’’ Discourses in Dance 1.1 (2002): 69–89. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wong, Yutian. Choreographing Asian America / Yutian Wong. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8195-6703-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) isbn 978-0-8195-6702-4 (cloth) 1. Dance—Anthropological aspects—United States. 2. Choreography— United States. 3. Asian Americans—Ethnic identity. 4. Asian Americans— Cultural assimilation. 5. Asian Americans and mass media. I. Title. gv1588.6.w66 2010 792.80895073—dc22 2009036033 Wesleyan University Press is a member of the GreenPress Initiative. The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper. For my mother This page intentionally left blank ...