...’ Drum Corps, this article examines the extent to which Chinese Americans utilized the festival’s performances of race and gender to challenge Orientalist ideas about the their community. WILL IAM GOW A Night in Old Chinatown American Orientalism, China Relief Fundraising, and the 1938 Moon Festival...

..., feminizing, and appropriating aspects of it in order to reassert the dominance of western martial arts, the white race and American masculinity. © 2015 by the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association 2015 Jiu-Jitsu jujutsu Theodore Roosevelt martial arts manliness orientalism...