Lily Cho

Eating Chinese

Culture on the Menu in Small Town Canada

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Produktbeschreibung

In Eating Chinese, Lily Cho examines Chinese restaurants as spaces that define, for those both inside and outside the community, what it means to be Chinese and what it means to be Chinese-Canadian.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 345g
• ISBN-13: 9781442610408
• ISBN-10: 1442610409
• Artikelnr.: 29261267

Autorenporträt

Lily Cho is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Western Ontario.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Sweet and Sour: Historical Presence and Diasporic Agency
2. On the Menu: Time and Chinese Restaurant Counterculture
3. Disappearing Chinese Cafe: White Nostalgia and the Public Sphere
4. 'How taste remembers life': Diaspora and the Memories That Bind
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index