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Chow chop suey : food and the Chinese American journey /

"Chinese food first became popular in America under the shadow of violence against Chinese aliens, a despised racial minority ineligible for United States citizenship. The founding of late-nineteenth-century "chop suey" restaurants that pitched an altered version of Cantonese cuisine...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mendelson, Anne (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Colección:Arts and traditions of the table.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: A Stroke of the Pen
  • PART I
  • 1. Origins: The Toisan
  • California Pipeline
  • 2. The Culinary "Language" Barrier
  • 3. "Celestials" on Gold Mountain
  • 4. The Road to Chinatown
  • PART II
  • 5. The Birth of Chinese American Cuisine
  • 6. Change, Interchange, and the First Successful "Translators"
  • 7. White America Rediscovers Chinese Cuisine
  • 8. An Advancement of Learning
  • 9. The First Age of Race-Blind Immigration
  • Postscript: What Might Have Been.