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From Canton Restaurant to Panda Express : a history of Chinese food in the United States
\"The story of Chinese Americans through the lens of food. From Canton Restaurant in 1849 to Panda Express today, Chinese food history in America spans over 150 years. Chinese 'Forty-niners' were mostly merchants and restaurateurs who migrated here not to dig gold but to do trade. Racism against the Chinese slowed down the growth of the Chinese restaurant business in the late 19th century, but it made a rebound in the format of chop suey. From 1900 to the 1960s, chop suey as imagined authentic Chinese food attracted numerous American customers including Jewish Americans as its collective fan. Then the real Chinese food such as Hunan, Sichuan or Shanghai cuisine replaced chop suey houses in the 1970s following the arrival of new Chinese immigrants after immigration reform in 1965. Those regional-flavored Chinese restaurants were brought in and established by immigrants from Taiwan rather than mainland China. As Chinese restaurants in America turned Chinese in flavor, P.F. Chang's and Panda Express rose fast in the 1990s to meet the need of constantly changing and often multi-ethnically blended eating habits of American customers. Chinese food in America is a fascinating history about both Chinese and Americans. Embedded in this history is the story of human migration, culinary tradition, racial politics, ethnic identity, cultural negotiation, Chinese Diaspora and transnational life, and Chinese cuisine as a global food. Though a scholarly work, this book aims at all readers who are interested in food history and culture\"--Provided by publisher.
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From Canton Restaurant to Panda Express
From Canton Restaurant to Panda Expresstakes readers on a compelling journey from the California Gold Rush to the present, letting readers witness both the profusion of Chinese restaurants across the United States and the evolution of many distinct American-Chinese iconic dishes from chop suey to General Tso's chicken. Along the way, historian Haiming Liu explains how the immigrants adapted their traditional food to suit local palates, and gives readers a taste of Chinese cuisine embedded in the bittersweet story of Chinese Americans.Treating food as a social history, Liu explores why Chinese food changed and how it has influenced American culinary culture, and how Chinese restaurants have become places where shared ethnic identity is affirmed-not only for Chinese immigrants but also for American Jews. The book also includes a look at national chains like P. F. Chang's and a consideration of how Chinese food culture continues to spread around the globe.Drawing from hundreds of historical and contemporary newspaper reports, journal articles, and writings on food in both English and Chinese,From Canton Restaurant to Panda Expressrepresents a groundbreaking piece of scholarly research. It can be enjoyed equally as a fascinating set of stories about Chinese migration, cultural negotiation, race and ethnicity, diverse flavored Chinese cuisine and its share in American food market today.
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Upscaling Downtown
Once known for slum-like conditions in its immigrant and working-class neighborhoods, New York City's downtown now features luxury housing, chic boutiques and hotels, and, most notably, a vibrant nightlife culture. While a burgeoning bar scene can be viewed as a positive sign of urban transformation, tensions lurk beneath, reflecting the social conflicts within postindustrial cities.Upscaling Downtownexamines the perspectives and actions of disparate social groups who have been affected by or played a role in the nightlife of the Lower East Side, East Village, and Bowery. Using the social world of bars as windows into understanding urban development, Richard Ocejo argues that the gentrifying neighborhoods of postindustrial cities are increasingly influenced by upscale commercial projects, causing significant conflicts for the people involved.
Ocejo explores what community institutions, such as neighborhood bars, gain or lose amid gentrification. He considers why residents continue unsuccessfully to protest the arrival of new bars, how new bar owners produce a nightlife culture that attracts visitors rather than locals, and how government actors, including elected officials and the police, regulate and encourage nightlife culture. By focusing on commercial newcomers and the residents who protest local changes, Ocejo illustrates the contested and dynamic process of neighborhood growth.
Delving into the social ecosystem of one emblematic section of Manhattan,Upscaling Downtownsheds fresh light on the tensions and consequences of urban progress.
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Dowries and Debts: Fuzhounese Youth Geographies of Fear, Resentment, and Obligation
Chinese family networks are often lauded as the source of Chinese American success in education and used as a bolstering tool to propagate myths of the model minority. This study of Fuzhounese youth, however, reveals that many Chinese American youth view getting married and having children as more important than educational status for establishing place and face in the United States. Against the backdrop of growing privatization of the nation’s economy and its emphasis on personal responsibility and worker flexibility, my analysis of the effects of familial obligations as a national and transnational debt complicates caricatures of Asian American families as the model minority. By calling attention to the negotiations that Fuzhounese youth make in order to forge economic relationships that take into consideration familial expectations, this article underscores the ways in which filial piety and obligations shape the marriage and educational aspirations of Fuzhounese youth.
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Chinese Students' Perceptions of Life in the U.S
Fifty-six students studying at a Chinese college in a southern province were surveyed for this study and asked to describe their experiences if they were to wake up one day to find themselves in the United States as U.S. citizens. A content analysis was performed for the final analysis of the raw data. Chinese students' views on the U.S. varied but mainly focused on the positive aspects of life in America. This researcher therefore concluded that Chinese students surveyed through this study did not have realistic views of life in the U.S. (Contains 1 table.)
Journal Article
Food, Culinary Identity, and Transnational Culture: Chinese Restaurant Business in Southern California
This article examines how restaurant business in southern California reflects the social background, life style, and ethnic identity of the post-1965 Chinese immigrants. Instead of wholesale assimilation, Chinese immigrants have maintained some cultural traditions such as food. With restaurants, grocery stores, and ethnic strip malls visibly congregated in the San Gabriel Valley, their transnational identity is no longer an abstract idea but a solid and tangible reality. Food culture of contemporary Chinese Americans brings out a seemingly paradoxical outcome of immigrant adaptation. It is possible and increasingly preferred for many immigrants to maintain their Chinese ethnicity while becoming American.
Journal Article
Transplanting identity: A study of Chinese immigrants and the Chinese restaurant business
The purpose of this study is to provide a better understanding of the dual role of the Chinese restaurant business in transforming the social identity as well as preserving the cultural identity of Chinese immigrants as they became a part of the American social and cultural scene. The emphasis is on both the sense of adherence to old-world cultural values and the general process of adaptation in the new world. The dissertation argues that it is the marriage between Chinese heritage and American multicultural environment that has shaped the present condition of the Chinese restaurant business and the close relationship between Chinese immigrants and the business in the United States. In addition to lack of opportunity in the competitive labor market, impact of US immigration policies, and other related factors, the Chinese cultural character, including values, attitudes, and skills in a particular direction played a significant role in the Chinese immigrant occupation and business investment choice. On the other hand, one should not ignore the new world environment where people have been inclined to be open to cultural representations of other ethnicities.
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