Chiou-Ling Yeh

Chiou-Ling Yeh (University of California, Irvine, 2001) teaches U.S.

history, racial and ethnic history, and Asian American history. Her

research interests include racial and ethnic history, Asian American

history, gender and sexuality, and cultural studies. Prior to her arrival

at SDSU, she was a Kevin Starr Fellow in California Studies at the

University of California Humanities Research Institute in 2001-2002. Her

publications include: “’In the Traditions of China and in the Freedom of

America’: the Making of San Francisco’s Chinese New Year Festivals,”

American Quarterly (Spring 2004) and “Contesting Identities: Youth

Rebellion in San Francisco's Chinese New Year Festivals, 1953-1969,” in

The Chinese in America: A History from Gold Mountain to the New Millennium

(Alta Mira Press, 2002). Her writing has also appeared in the Journal of

American Ethnic History and Pacific Historical Review. She has returned

from her Rockefeller Resident Fellowship in the Center for Ethnicities,

Communities, and Social Policy at Bryn Mawr College. Her first book

manuscript focuses on Chinese New Year festivals in San Francisco. She is

currently working on a second book project on Chinese American

masculinities.