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Chow chop suey : food and the Chinese American journey / Anne Mendelson.
LIBRA TX724.5.C5 M376 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mendelson, Anne, author.
- Series:
- Arts and traditions of the table
- Arts and traditions of the table : perspectives on culinary history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking, Chinese--History.
- Cooking, Chinese.
- Chinese Americans--Food--History.
- Chinese Americans.
- Food habits--United States.
- Food habits.
- Chinese American families.
- History.
- Chinese Americans--Food.
- United States.
- Emigration and immigration--History.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Chinese American families--History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 330 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- Part I
- 1 Origins: The Toisan-California Pipeline 7
- 2 The Culinary "Language" Barrier 24
- 3 "Celestials" on Gold Mountain 41
- 4 The Road to Chinatown 72
- Part II
- 5 The Birth of Chinese American Cuisine 99
- 6 Change, Interchange, and the First Successful "Translators" 138
- 7 White America Rediscovers Chinese Cuisine 165
- 8 An Advancement of Learning 191
- 9 The First Age of Race-Blind Immigration 233.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231158602
- 0231158602
- OCLC:
- 950448303
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