The Chinese Family Table

Author : Kathryn Hulick
Publisher : Connecting Cultures Through Family and Food
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : China
ISBN : 1422240436

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The Chinese Family Table by Kathryn Hulick Pdf

You can find a Chinese restaurant in almost every city in the world. That's in large part due to Chinese people who have left behind their homeland to start new lives elsewhere. Inside, read the story of how Chinese people brought their long traditions of food with them to America and other nations, and how they used those family traditions to stay connected to their homeland. No matter where they come from, people living together have a long history of sharing meals, eating foods and dishes that have been passed down for centuries. In this series, find out how the experience of eating together helps create new communities while building strong bonds to the old. Each title in CONNECTING CULTURES THROUGH FAMILY AND FOOD includes color photos throughout, and back matter including an index and further reading lists for books and internet resources. Key Icons appear throughout the books in this series in an effort to encourage library readers to build knowledge, gain awareness, explore possibilities, and expand their viewpoints through our content rich nonfiction books. Key Icons in this series are: Words to Understand shown at the front of each chapter with definitions. These words are set in boldfaced color type in that chapter, so that readers are able to reference back to the definitions, building their vocabulary and enhancing their reading comprehension. Sidebars are highlighted graphics with content-rich material within that allows readers to build knowledge and broaden their perspectives by weaving together additional information to provide realistic and holistic perspectives. Text-Dependent Questions are placed at the end of each chapter. They challenge the reader's comprehension of the material they have just read, while sending the reader back to the text for more careful attention to the evidence presented there. Research Projects are provided at the end of each chapter and give readers suggestions for projects that encourage deeper research and analysis. Educational Videos are offered in chapters through the use of a QR code, that, when scanned, takes the student to an online video showing a moment in history, a speech, or an instructional video. This gives the readers additional content to supplement the text. A Series Glossary of Key Terms is included in the backmatter containing terminology used throughout the series. Words found here broaden the reader's knowledge and understanding of terms used in this field.

Author : Carolyn Phillips
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781324002468

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At the Chinese Table: A Memoir with Recipes by Carolyn Phillips Pdf

Finalist for the 2022 IACP Award in Literary or Historical Food Writing KCRW Best Culinary books of 2021 WBUR Here & Now Favorite Cookbooks of 2021 Part memoir of life in Taiwan, part love story—a beautifully told account of China’s brilliant cuisines…with recipes. At the Chinese Table describes in vivid detail how, during the 1970s and ’80s, celebrated cookbook writer and illustrator Carolyn Phillips crosses China’s endless cultural and linguistic chasms and falls in love. During her second year in Taipei, she meets scholar and epicurean J. H. Huang, who nourishes her intellectually over luscious meals from every part of China. And then, before she knows it, Carolyn finds herself the unwelcome candidate for eldest daughter-in-law in a traditional Chinese family. This warm, refreshingly candid memoir is a coming-of-age story set against a background of the Chinese diaspora and a family whose ancestry is intricately intertwined with that of their native land. Carolyn’s reticent father-in-law—a World War II fighter pilot and hero—eventually embraces her presence by showing her how to re-create centuries-old Hakka dishes from family recipes. In the meantime, she brushes up on the classic cuisines of the North in an attempt to win over J. H.’s imperious mother, whose father had been a warlord’s lieutenant. Fortunately for J. H. and Carolyn, the tense early days of their relationship blossom into another kind of cultural and historical education as Carolyn masters both the language and many of China’s extraordinary cuisines. With illustrations and twenty-two recipes, At the Chinese Table is a culinary adventure like no other that captures the diversity of China’s cuisines, from the pen of a world-class scholar and gourmet.

Author : Tash Aw
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781632060457

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The Face by Tash Aw Pdf

A whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian and Chinese heritage

Author : Corinne Trang
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Cookery, Vietnamese
ISBN : 9780684864440

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Authentic Vietnamese Cooking by Corinne Trang Pdf

A mouthwatering introduction to the pleasures of regional Vietnamese cooking featuring more than 100 recipes and illustrated with more than 60 photos. Includes mail-order sources and Web sties for hard-to-find ingredients. 2-color throughout.

Author : Anqi XU,John DeFrain,Wenrong LIU
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317283539

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The Chinese Family Today by Anqi XU,John DeFrain,Wenrong LIU Pdf

The Chinese economy is undergoing dramatic changes and the world is watching and changing along with it. The Chinese family is also changing in many ways in response to the economic transformation that is moving the world’s most populous nation from an agrarian economy to a global superpower. This is the first book in English to describe and explain the social transformation of the Chinese family from the perspective of Chinese researchers. Presenting a comprehensive view of the Chinese family today and how it has adapted during the process of modernization, it provides description and analysis of the trajectory of changes in family structures, functions, and relationships. It tracks how Chinese marriages and families are becoming more diverse and face a great deal of uncertainty as they evolve in different ways from Western marriages and families. The book is also unique in its use of national statistics and data from large-scale surveys to systematically illustrate these radical and extraordinary changes in family structure and dynamics over the past 30 years. Demonstrating that the de-institutionalization of family values is a slow process in the Chinese context, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese Studies, Sociology, Social Policy and Family Policy.

Author : Kay Ann Johnson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226401942

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Women, the Family, and Peasant Revolution in China by Kay Ann Johnson Pdf

Kay Ann Johnson provides much-needed information about women and gender equality under Communist leadership. She contends that, although the Chinese Communist Party has always ostensibly favored women's rights and family reform, it has rarely pushed for such reforms. In reality, its policies often have reinforced the traditional role of women to further the Party's predominant economic and military aims. Johnson's primary focus is on reforms of marriage and family because traditional marriage, family, and kinship practices have had the greatest influence in defining and shaping women's place in Chinese society. Conversant with current theory in political science, anthropology, and Marxist and feminist analysis, Johnson writes with clarity and discernment free of dogma. Her discussions of family reform ultimately provide insights into the Chinese government's concern with decreasing the national birth rate, which has become a top priority. Johnson's predictions of a coming crisis in population control are borne out by the recent increase in female infanticide and the government abortion campaign.

Author : Raymond Johnson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1726135993

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Mr. Song's Dinner Table by Raymond Johnson Pdf

Growing up, I didn't know much about China; but I thought I was pretty well-versed about Chinese food, especially after I met this female Chinese chef, during my time in the Culinary Arts Program at Charles Chadsey High School. We were serving food at one of the arts schools, in the Cultural Center; and she used art of the time to school me about the dishes we were serving. She also taught me how to hold a pair of chopsticks. I came away from that experience even more determined to pay attention to the menus, whenever I ate out at a Chinese restaurant. But, it wasn't until I came to China that I discovered how little I actually knew about Chinese food. And what I learned, living here for just short of seven years, motivated me to talk about it, in a book. Over my time here, I was privileged to eat in some of China's finest restaurants, to eat in numerous Chinese homes; and, even to be hosted in a tiny rural farmhouse, in Henan Province - seventeen hour, by train, away from my city. Mr. Song's Dinner Table is not a cookbook, although I have included a small number of recipes. It is an exploration of the things that make Chinese food special and unique; and the things that distinguish Mainland Chinese food from what we have available to us, in most parts of the United States. From street food, to banquet food, to high-end restaurant food, to the delicious food in little holes-in-the-wall, this book explores them all.

Author : John Jung
Publisher : John Jung
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780615345451

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Sweet and Sour by John Jung Pdf

"Sweet and Sour" examines the history of Chinese family restaurants in the U. S. and Canada. Why did many Chinese immigrants enter this business around the end of the 19th century? What conditions made it possible for Chinese to open and succeed in operating restaurants after they emigrated to North America? How did Chinese restaurants manage to attract non-Chinese customers, given that they had little or no acquaintance with the Chinese style of food preparation and many had vicious hostility toward Chinese immigrants? The goal of "Sweet and Sour" is to understand how the small Chinese family restaurants functioned. Narratives provided by 10 Chinese who grew up in their family restaurants in all parts of the North America provide valuable insights on the role that this ethnic business had on their lives. Is there any future for this type of immigrant enterprise in the modern world of franchised and corporate owned eateries or will it soon, like the Chinese laundry, be a relic of history? Excerpts from Reviews I greatly admired and enjoyed "Sweet and Sour: Life in Chinese Family Restaurants" It does an excellent job of going over the historical background on early U. S. Chinese restaurants, unearthing lots of material new to me. And the interviews of Chinese restaurateurs opened up a whole new side to the story, of what it was like to work and live in these restaurants. Andrew Cole, "Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States" "Sweet and Sour: Life in Chinese Family Restaurants" tackles the long-neglected topic of Chinese food with a focus on Chinese restaurants. This well-researched, thoughtfully conceptualized monograph brings academic rigor and adds historical depth, as well as the perspectives of an insightful scholar and a second-generation Chinese American, to our understanding of the development of Chinese food in the realm of public consumption in the United States and Canada. It promises to elevate that understanding to a higher level... Through this book, I hope, consumers at the ubiquitous Chinese restaurants can also gain a deeper appreciation of historical forces and human experiences that have shaped the food they now enjoy. Yong Chen, Professor of History, University of California, Irvine. "San Francisco Chinese 1850-1943: A Trans-Pacific Community." "Sweet and Sour" covers many important aspects of the Chinese restaurant business and it is a great contribution to the study of Chinese food in America. This area really deserves more attention than it has had. Haiming Liu, Prof.Ethnic & Women's Studies, Calif. State Polytechnic Univ. Pomona. I am reading your delightful book, Sweet and Sour. I especially like the "Insider Perspectives" section. Those first-hand experiences can generate a lot of potentially testable hypotheses about how the Chinese were able to provision their remote restaurants with exotic ingredients while other ethnic groups could not. Susan B. Carter, Univ. of California, Riverside Reader Comments You've made some amazing observations, wrote them down with sincerity, and I wholeheartedly support you on it. You've brought back some fond memories and I'm sure it will touch other folks like myself that have gone through it. Dave Chow When reading Sweet and Sour, I was struck by how it is both a work of scholarship and a documentation of the experience of Chinese restaurant workers. It serves to teach us about their experiences on multiple levels. Heather Lee Brings back childhood memories as most of the people interviewed are from Toisan like my family. We could always go into a new town, drop in at a Chinese restaurant and be welcomed. Dad would run out and say, "they're cousins! Rosemary Eng

Author : Virginia Loh-Hagan
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534146242

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Nian, The Chinese New Year Dragon by Virginia Loh-Hagan Pdf

Mei hates springtime. Why? Because it's only in the spring that Nian, a fierce dragon, is able to leave his mountain prison under the sea to terrorize the local village. When the villagers hear the rumblings of Nian's hungry stomach, they know that winter has ended and spring is coming. But this year on the night before the first day of spring, a magical warrior visits Mei in her dreams. He tells Mei that it is her destiny to face and defeat Nian. But she must do it within 15 days or the dragon will be free forever. Author Virginia Loh-Hagan (PoPo's Lucky Chinese New Year) gives this retelling of the Nian legend an original twist, while explaining the origins of Chinese New Year traditions.

Author : Franklin Ng
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Asian American women
ISBN : 0815326920

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Asian American Women and Gender by Franklin Ng Pdf

Women have shaped immigrant families, reared new generations, and pioneered significant changes in their communities. These essays illuminate the complex and changing roles of Asian American women, examing such diverse subjects as war brides, international marriages, split households, stereotyping, women-centered kin networks, employment, immigrant prostitution, conflict with patriarchal attitudes, feminism, and lesbianism.

Author : Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0415288231

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Women and the Family in Chinese History by Patricia Buckley Ebrey Pdf

This is a collection of essays by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, it explores features of the Chinese family, gender and kinship systems and places them in a historical context.

Author : Gavin Jack
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819703197

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Managing the Post-Colony: Voices from Aotearoa, Australia and The Pacific by Gavin Jack Pdf

Author : Yi Zeng
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 029912634X

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Family Dynamics in China by Yi Zeng Pdf

Based on the author's doctoral dissertation (submitted to Brussels Free U. in March 1986) and subsequent research, presents an overview of the demographic profile of families in China, discusses the construction and validation of a general family status life table model (which is an extension of Bongaarts' nuclear family model), and deals with the application of the model and presents new findings concerning family dynamics in China. Paper edition (unseen), $15.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Anqi XU,John DeFrain,Wenrong LIU
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317283546

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The Chinese Family Today by Anqi XU,John DeFrain,Wenrong LIU Pdf

The Chinese economy is undergoing dramatic changes and the world is watching and changing along with it. The Chinese family is also changing in many ways in response to the economic transformation that is moving the world’s most populous nation from an agrarian economy to a global superpower. This is the first book in English to describe and explain the social transformation of the Chinese family from the perspective of Chinese researchers. Presenting a comprehensive view of the Chinese family today and how it has adapted during the process of modernization, it provides description and analysis of the trajectory of changes in family structures, functions, and relationships. It tracks how Chinese marriages and families are becoming more diverse and face a great deal of uncertainty as they evolve in different ways from Western marriages and families. The book is also unique in its use of national statistics and data from large-scale surveys to systematically illustrate these radical and extraordinary changes in family structure and dynamics over the past 30 years. Demonstrating that the de-institutionalization of family values is a slow process in the Chinese context, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese Studies, Sociology, Social Policy and Family Policy.

Author : I.C. Jarvie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136234330

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Hong Kong by I.C. Jarvie Pdf

This is Volume IV in a series of six on the Sociology of East Asia. Originally published in 1969, the aim was to fill the lack of sociological studies of Hong Kong at the time.