American Chinese Restaurants

<p>With case studies from the USA Canada Chile and other countries in Latin America <i>American Chinese Restaurants</i> examines the lived experiences of what it is like to work in a Chinese restaurant.</p><p>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 transnationalism industrialization (post)modernity assimilation public and civic spheres and socioeconomic differences. </p><p>American Chinese Restaurants will be of interest to general readers scholars and college students from undergraduate to graduate level who wish to know Chinese restaurant life and understand the relationship between food and society.</p>