Join ICW for this webinar conversation with Professor William Gow.  Together with Bill Deverell, Prof. Gow will discuss his new book, Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community. 

William Gow is a Sacramento-based community historian, educator, and documentary filmmaker. A fourth-generation Chinese American and a proud graduate of the San Francisco Unified School District, he holds a B.F.A in Cinema Studies from NYU, an M.A. in Asian American Studies from UCLA, and a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley. He currently serves as the co-director of the Five Chinatowns Community History Project for the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California. He is also an Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies in the Ethnic Studies Department at California State University, Sacramento.