American Chinese Restaurants (eBook, ePUB)

Society, Culture and Consumption
Redaktion: Banh, Jenny; Liu, Haiming

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429938894
• Artikelnr.: 57646361

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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