Eating Chinese : : Chinese Restaurants and Diaspora /

Eating Chinese : : Chinese Restaurants and Diaspora / / Lily Cho.

"Chicken fried rice, sweet and sour pork, and an order of onion rings, please."Chinese restaurants in small town Canada are at once everywhere - you would be hard pressed to find a town without a Chinese restaurant - and yet they are conspicuously absent in critical discussions of Chinese...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Cho, Lily,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2010
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments I
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. Sweet and Sour: Historical Presence and Diasporic Agency
  • Chapter Two. On the Menu: Time and Chinese Restaurant Counterculture
  • Chapter Three. Disappearing Chinese Café: White Nostalgia and the Public Sphere
  • Chapter Four. Diasporic Counterpublics: The Chinese Restaurant as Institution and Installation
  • Chapter Five. 'How taste remembers life': Diaspora and the Memories That Bind
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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