Chow chop suey : food and the Chinese American journey /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mendelson, Anne (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Series:Arts and traditions of the table.
Subjects:
Cooking, Chinese > History.
Chinese Americans > Food > History.
Food habits > United States.
Emigration and immigration > History.
Chinese American families > History.
Food habits.
Asian > history
Cooking > history
Feeding Behavior
Cuisine chinoise > Histoire.
Américains d'origine chinoise > Alimentation > Histoire.
Habitudes alimentaires > États-Unis.
Émigration et immigration > Histoire.
Familles américaines d'origine chinoise > Histoire.
Habitudes alimentaires.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Chinese American families
Chinese Americans > Food
Cooking, Chinese
Emigration and immigration
Food habits
United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies
History
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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