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Cho, Lily.

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On eating Chinese: Chinese restaurants and the politics of diaspora.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	On eating Chinese: Chinese restaurants and the politics of diaspora./
Author:	Cho, Lily.
Description:	368 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-01, Section: A, page: 0227.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-01A.
Subject:	Canadian Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NQ87952
ISBN:	0612879526

On eating Chinese: Chinese restaurants and the politics of diaspora.
Cho, Lily.

On eating Chinese: Chinese restaurants and the politics of diaspora. - 368 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-01, Section: A, page: 0227.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta (Canada), 2003.

Small town Chinese restaurants in Canada are at once everywhere (there is almost no small town without a Chinese restaurant) and nowhere in contemporary discussions of Chinese immigration, diasporas, Canadian multiculturalism, transnational migration patterns, and global movements of people and capital. This paradox of visibility points to a bias in discussions of diaspora and transnationalism where diasporic subjects are almost without exception presumed to arrive in the metropolitan spaces of the first world. This dissertation emerges out of a concern with the way in which diaspora studies seems to have no place for small town Chinese restaurants and the people who worked in them except as unfortunate features of a forgettable past. This dissertation investigates the cultural significance of small town Chinese restaurants in Canada and argues that their cultural legacy embeds a history of Chinese Canadian labour migration and resistance to assimilation.

ISBN: 0612879526Subjects--Topical Terms:

1020605
Canadian Studies.

On eating Chinese: Chinese restaurants and the politics of diaspora.
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520 $a Chapter One distinguishes diasporic agency from postcolonial conceptions of agency through an exploration of the productivity of rumour and the history of Chinese cooks serving food to non-Chinese consumers. Chapter Two attends to this problem of diasporic agency further through a reading of Chinese restaurant menus and argues that the menus reveal a disjunctive temporality which interrupts Euro-Canadian narratives of progress. Chapter Three takes up the folk music of Joni Mitchell and Sylvia Tyson and argues that the function of the Chinese restaurant in these songs reveals the nostalgia which is structural to conceptions of the public sphere. Chapter Four explores the incipient situatedness of diasporas and ways of reading their emplacement in places of “arrival” through the artistic collaborations of Andrew Hunter and Gu Xiong, and Fred Wah and Haruko Okano. Chapter Five attends to the problem of transmission, of attempting to grasp what it is that makes diasporic communities diasporic and, through a reading of the poetry of Fred Wah, argues for an understanding of diasporic community based in a dehistoricized history.
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