Feast of Lanterns

For decades, few challenged Pacific Grove’s Feast of Lanterns, even when locals wore yellowface and slanted eyes.

The Feast of Lanterns is no more.

Some coalition members are beginning to process the complex emotions that the Feast of Lanterns and the nation’s current racial upheaval have dredged up within them.

The Feast of Lanterns was viewed as a source of pride, and many residents still feel that way, she says.

But what bothers him just as much is that for decades, this predominantly white city of about 15,000 people capped off its annual Feast of Lanterns with a fictional stage production that appropriated Chinese culture.