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American Chinese Restaurants

Society, Culture and Consumption

Jenny Banh, Haiming Liu (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
340 Seiten
2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-59986-4 (ISBN)
CHF 235,65 inkl. MwSt
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This book examines the lived experiences of what it is like to work in an American Chinese restaurant, exploring the relationship between food and society. It explores questions of geography, locality, transnationalism and ethnicity, and how these connect identities and shape changes.
With case studies from the USA, Canada, Chile, and other countries in Latin America, American Chinese Restaurants examines the lived experiences of what it is like to work in a Chinese restaurant.

The book provides ethnographic insights on small family businesses, struggling immigrant parents, and kids working, living, and growing up in an American Chinese restaurant. This is the first book based on personal histories to document and analyze the American Chinese restaurant world. New narratives by various international and American contributors have presented Chinese restaurants as dynamic agencies that raise questions on identity, ethnicity, transnationalism, industrialization, (post)modernity, assimilation, public and civic spheres, and socioeconomic differences.

American Chinese Restaurants will be of interest to general readers, scholars, and college students from undergraduate to graduate level, who wish to know Chinese restaurant life and understand the relationship between food and society.

Jenny Banh is an Assistant Professor at California State University, Fresno in Anthropology and Asian American Studies. She received her BA from UCLA, her MA from Claremont Graduate University, and her PhD from the University of California, Riverside. Her research focuses on Asia/Asian American studies, cultural anthropology, and popular culture. Her current research is on restaurants, barriers/bridges to minority college students, and a Hong Kong transnational corporation. She has previously published "Barack Obama or B Hussein" (2012) and "DACA Spaces" (2018), and co-edited Anthropology of Los Angeles: Place and Agency in an Urban Setting (2017). Haiming Liu is a Professor of Ethnic and Women Studies at California Polytechnic University, Pomona, and received his doctorate from the University of California, Irvine. He is an expert on Chinese herbalists, food, restaurants, globalization, and migration. He has authored From Canton Restaurant to Panda Express: A History of Chinese Food in the United States (2015) and The Transnational History of a Chinese Family: Immigrant Letters, Family Business (2005), and numerous journal articles and book chapters on Chinese Americans.

Introduction Part I: Social Analysis 1. Creating and Negotiating "Chineseness" through Chinese restaurants in Santiago, Chile 2. From Chinese Donuts to Leek Cakes: Navigating Los Angeles Chinatown’s Golden Waters 3. Feeding Prejudices: Chinese Fondas and the Culinary Making of National Identity in Peru 4. Selling Donuts in the Fragmented Metropolis: Chinese Cambodian Donut Shops in Los Angeles and the Practices of Chinese Restaurants 5. Talk Doesn’t Cook Rice: Chinese Restaurants and the Chinese (American) Dream in Ohio Part II: Culinary Histories 6. Surveying the Genealogy of Chinese Restaurant in Mexico: From High-end Franchises to Makeshift Stands 7. Live At the China Royal: A Funky Ode to Fall River’s Chow Mein Sandwich 8. Under the Banner of Northern Chinese Cuisine: Invention of the Pan-China Cuisine in American Chinese Restaurants 9. Oriental Palaces: Chin F. Foin and Chinese Fine Dining in Exclusion-era Chicago 10. P.F. Chang’s and Chinese Food History in America Part III: Person Centered Narratives 11. Chinese Restaurants and Jewish American Culture 12. Last Tango in Argentina 13. Chinese Restaurant Kids Speak About Labor, Lifeways and Legacies 14. Chinese American Chef Ming Tsai: Life of East and West Hybridity 15. Culinary Ambassador Chef Martin Yan Speaks: Life, "Authenticity" and the Future of Chinese Restaurants Part IV: Comics 16. Prologue: What Number did I get? Written by Isha Aran Illustrated by Karl Orozco #372 and #1 A Winning Combo Written by Isha Aran, Daniel Tam-Claiborne,Sophia Park and Julian Tucker Illustrated by Karl Orozco and Sophia Park #249 Dim Sum Drama Written and Illustrated by Isha Aran #818 First In Our Hearts Written and Illustrated by Amelea Kim Part V: Visual Analysis 17. A Visual Habitat Study for Chinese Restaurants in a California Conurbation 18. Redefining and Challenging the Boundaries of Chinese Cuisine: A Visually Based Exploration of Uyghur Restaurants in the United States 19. Diasporic Counterpublics: The Chinese Restaurant as Institution and Installation in Canada 20. Toy’s Chinese Restaurants: Exploring the Political Dimension of Race through the Built Environment

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 3 Line drawings, black and white; 59 Halftones, black and white; 62 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 790 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Essen / Trinken Länderküchen
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
Wirtschaft
ISBN-10 1-138-59986-7 / 1138599867
ISBN-13 978-1-138-59986-4 / 9781138599864
Zustand Neuware
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