Eating Chinese: Culture on the Menu in Small Town Canada 9781442641051, 9781442610408, 9781442686472, 1442686472

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Eating Chinese: Culture on the Menu in Small Town Canada
 9781442641051, 9781442610408, 9781442686472, 1442686472

Table of contents :
COVER
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction
1 Sweet and Sour: Historical Presence and Diasporic Agency
2 On the Menu: Time and Chinese Restaurant Counterculture
3 Disappearing Chinese Café: White Nostalgia and the Public Sphere
4 Diasporic Counterpublics: The Chinese Restaurant as Institution and Installation
5 'How taste remembers life': Diaspora and the Memories That Bind
Conclusion
NOTES
WORKS CITED
INDEX
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