American Chinese Restaurants
Society, Culture and Consumption
With case studies from the USA, Canada, Chile, and other countries in Latin America, American Chinese Restaurants examines the lived experiences of what it is like to work in a Chinese restaurant.The book provides ethnographic insights on small family businesses, struggling immigrant parents, and kids working, living, and growing up in an American Chinese restaurant. This is the first book based on personal histories to document and analyze the American Chinese restaurant world. New narratives by various international and American contributors have presented Chinese restaurants as dynamic agencies that raise questions on identity, ethnicity,…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Liu, Haiming (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-429-93889-4
- EAN: 9780429938894
- Produktnummer: 31671342
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 340 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 6'593 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 62 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 59 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 3 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen
Über den Autor
Jenny Banh is an Assistant Professor at California State University, Fresno in Anthropology and Asian American Studies. She received her BA from UCLA, her MA from Claremont Graduate University, and her PhD from the University of California, Riverside. Her research focuses on Asia/Asian American studies, cultural anthropology, and popular culture. Her current research is on restaurants, barriers/bridges to minority college students, and a Hong Kong transnational corporation. She has previously published Barack Obama or B Hussein (2012) and DACA Spaces (2018), and co-edited Anthropology of Los Angeles: Place and Agency in an Urban Setting (2017).Haiming Liu is a Professor of Ethnic and Women Studies at California Polytechnic University, Pomona, and received his doctorate from the University of California, Irvine. He is an expert on Chinese herbalists, food, restaurants, globalization, and migration. He has authored From Canton Restaurant to Panda Express: A History of Chinese Food in the United States (2015) and The Transnational History of a Chinese Family: Immigrant Letters, Family Business (2005), and numerous journal articles and book chapters on Chinese Americans.
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