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DESCRIPTION:a lecture by Rosanne Sia\, PhD candidate in American Studies an
 d Ethnicity\, Transpacific Studies Dissertation Fellow\n\nIn the early Cold
  War\, Asian American entertainers traveled on transpacific nightclub circu
 its that brought them into the vibrant cabaret culture of Havana\, Cuba. In
  1950s Havana they encountered the figure of the vedette china who was\nfol
 ded into the Cuban national symbol of the mulata. This talk explores the me
 eting point between the “china doll” and the “vedette china” as Cold War tr
 anspacific flows that resulted from American expansion across the Pacific m
 et with the legacies of Spanish empire in the Caribbean.
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LOCATION:Anthropology Conference Room\, KAP 352
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SUMMARY:The China Doll Meets the Vedette China: Transpacific Nightclub Circ
 uits in the early Cold War
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 ranspacific_nightclub_circuits_in_the_early_cold_war
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