Eating Chinese : Culture on the Menu in Small Town Canada
Cho, Lily
ISBN 10: 1442610409 ISBN 13: 9781442610408
Published by University of Toronto Press, 2010
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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 diasporic culture or even in popular writing about Chinese food. 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.
Despite restrictions on immigration and explicitly racist legislation at national and provincial levels, Chinese immigrants have long dominated the restaurant industry in Canada. While isolated by racism, Chinese communities in Canada were still strongly connected to their non-Chinese neighbours through the food that they prepared and served. Cho looks at this surprisingly ubiquitous feature of small-town Canada through menus, literature, art, and music. An innovative approach to the study of diaspora, Eating Chinese brings to light the cultural spaces crafted by restaurateurs, diners, cooks, servers, and artists.
About the Author: Lily Cho is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Western Ontario.
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Title: Eating Chinese : Culture on the Menu in ...
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: As New