Chinese Food in North America
Chinese American and Canadian Chinese food through migration history, named communities and signature dishes.
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Migration, adaptation and community memory
Chinese Diaspora Cuisines
Chinese American, British Chinese, Indo-Chinese and other cuisines understood on their own historical terms.
Diaspora dishes are not failed copies of food in China. They document migration, exclusion, entrepreneurship, local ingredients and the tastes communities built in new places.
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Chinese Food in Europe
British and other European Chinese cuisines documented through local communities, restaurant histories and adaptation.
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Peranakan, Malaysian Chinese, Singaporean Chinese and other foodways treated through their own local histories.
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Chinese communities and locally created cuisines in India and neighboring South Asian contexts.
Explore collectionChinese Food in the Caribbean and Latin America
Guyanese Chinese, Puerto Rican Chinese and related foodways grounded in specific migration histories.
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Chinese Australian, New Zealand Chinese and Pacific food histories grounded in particular migration periods and local communities.
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Chinese foodways in African countries approached through named cities, communities and different periods of migration.
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