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From Canton Restaurant to Panda Express: A History of Chinese Food in the United States
Haiming Liu
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Description for From Canton Restaurant to Panda Express: A History of Chinese Food in the United States
Paperback. Series: Asian American Studies Today. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 525.
From Canton Restaurant to Panda Express takes 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 ... Read more
From Canton Restaurant to Panda Express takes 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Asian American Studies Today
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New Brunswick, NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813574745
SKU
V9780813574745
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99-1
About Haiming Liu
Haiming Liu is a professor of Asian American studies in the Ethnic and Women's Studies Department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA. He is also the author of The Transnational History of a Chinese Family: Immigrant Letters, Family Business, and Reverse Migration (Rutgers University Press).
Reviews for From Canton Restaurant to Panda Express: A History of Chinese Food in the United States
This slender book delivers its tales with lively storytelling and well-placed details, with obvious relish for the telling anecdote, and a careful folding of such into its narrative. -China Review International