American Chinese restaurants : society, culture and consumption / edited by Jenny Banh and Haiming Liu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Banh, Jenny, editor.

Liu, Haiming, 1953- editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

James Samuel Blank Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese restaurants--Social aspects--America.

Chinese restaurants.

Cooking, Chinese.

Chinese--America--Social life and customs.

Chinese.

Manners and customs.

Social aspects.

America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

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 Liuis a Professor of Ethnic and Women Studies at California Polytechnic University, Pomona,and received his doctorate from theUniversity 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.

Contents:

Creating and negotiating "Chineseness" through Chinese restaurants in Santiago, Chile / Carol Chan and Maria Montt Strabucchi

From Chinese donuts to leek cakes : navigating Los Angeles Chinatown's Golden Waters / Frances Huynh

Feeding prejudices : Chinese fondas and the culinary making of national identity in Peru / Patricia Palma and José Ragas

Selling donuts in the fragmented metropolis : Chinese Cambodian donut shops in Los Angeles and the practices of Chinese restaurants / Erin M. Curtis

Talk doesn't cook rice : Chinese restaurants and the Chinese (American) dream in Ohio / Anthony Miller

Surveying the genealogy of Chinese restaurant in Mexico : from high-end franchises to makeshift stands / Yong Chen

Live at the China Royal : a funky ode to Fall River's chow mein sandwich / Oliver Wang

Under the banner of Northern Chinese cuisine : invention of the pan-China cuisine in American Chinese restaurants / David Y.H. Wu

Oriental Palaces : Chin F. Foin and Chinese dine sining in exclusion-era Chicago / Samuel King

P.F. Chang's and Chinese food history in America / Haiming Liu

Chinese restaurants and Jewish American culture / Jacob R. Levin

Last tango in Argentina / Cheuk Kwan

Chinese restaurant kids speak about labor, lifeways and legacies / Jenny Banh

Chinese American chef Ming Tsai : life of East and West hybridity / Jenny Banh

Culinary Ambassador chef Martin Yan Speaks : life, "authenticity" and the future of Chinese restaurants / Jenny Banh

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

A visual habitat study for Chinese restaurants in a California conurbation / Nicholas Bauch and Rick Miller

Redefining and challenging the boundaries of Chinese cuisine : a visually based exploration of Uyghur restaurants in the United States / Christopher Sullivan

Diasporic counterpublics : the Chinese restaurant as institution and installation in Canada / Lily Cho

Toy's Chinese restaurants : exploring the political dimension of race through the built environment / Hongyan Yang.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 08, 2019).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Samuel Blank Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: American Chinese restaurants.

ISBN:

9780429485497

0429485492

9780429938887

0429938888

9780429938900

042993890X

9780429938894

0429938896

Publisher Number:

99988017460

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.