Eating Chinese - Culture on the Menu in Small Town Canada

Informationen zum Autor Lily Cho is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Western Ontario. Klappentext In Eating Chinese, Lily Cho examines Chinese restaurants as spaces that define, for those both inside and outside the community, what it means to be Chinese and what it means to be Chinese-Canadian. Zusammenfassung In Eating Chinese! Lily Cho examines Chinese restaurants as spaces that define! for those both inside and outside the community! what it means to be Chinese and what it means to be Chinese-Canadian. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Sweet and Sour: Historical Presence and Diasporic Agency On the Menu: Time and Chinese Restaurant Counterculture Disappearing Chinese Cafe: White Nostalgia and the Public Sphere 'How taste remembers life': Diaspora and the Memories That Bind Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index

Product details

• Authors: Lily Cho
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.11.2010
• EAN: 9781442610408
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-1040-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Cultural Spaces; Cultural Spaces
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > International cuisine; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous