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" China to Chinatown : "
J.A.G. Roberts.
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BL
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648635
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| Main Entry
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Roberts, J. A. G.,1935-
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China to Chinatown : : Chinese food in the West /\ J.A.G. Roberts.
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London :: Reaktion,, 2002.
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| Series Statement
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Globalities
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255 p. :: ill., ports. ;; 24 cm.
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1861891334
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: 9781861891334
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: 1861892276 (pbk.)
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: 9781861892270 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-244) and index.
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| Abstract
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"Since Marco Polo first recorded his responses in 1275, the West's encounters with Chinese food have been a measure of the times. For Jesuit missionaries, eating the exotic food of the people was a way of understanding them; for the British merchants in the 19th-century treaty ports, Chinese cuisine was an object of suspicion. During the Cultural Revolution, food was political: despite widespread food shortages, lavish hospitality was used to influence the views of visiting intellectuals and politicians, while, for some, eating the meagre food of the Communist peasantry was a Western gesture of solidarity." "But how did a cuisine that, to the Western palate, admitted the inadmissible - sharks' fins, dog's flesh, cats' eyes - spread to the extent that there is now a Chinese restaurant or takeaway on every high street and a wok in every kitchen? In charting the first immigrant communities, Chinatowns and restaurants in Britain and North America and the gradual domestication of Chinese food, Roberts provides a brilliant analysis of how cultures assimilate and adapt, at times abandoning strict ethnic authenticity, in order to survive."--BOOK JACKET.
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Cooking, Chinese.
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Food habits-- China.
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Civilization, Western-- Chinese influences.
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394.1/0951
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TX724.5.C5R63 2002
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