Chow chop suey : food and the Chinese American journey / Anne Mendelson.

New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]

xx, 330 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue: A Stroke of the Pen -- PART I -- 1. Origins: The Toisan -- California Pipeline -- 2. The Culinary "Language" Barrier -- 3. "Celestials" on Gold Mountain -- 4. The Road to Chinatown -- PART II -- 5. The Birth of Chinese American Cuisine -- 6. Change, Interchange, and the First Successful "Translators" -- 7. White America Rediscovers Chinese Cuisine -- 8. An Advancement of Learning -- 9. The First Age of Race-Blind Immigration -- Postscript: What Might Have Been.