John Jung (1) (1937–)
Autor(a) de Sweet and Sour: Life in Chinese Family Restaurants
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 9
- Membros
- 91
- Popularidade
- #204,136
- Avaliação
- 2.9
- Críticas
- 5
- ISBN
- 20
- Línguas
- 1
I am the granddaughter of a southern Chinese grocery store owner (albeit in a different state), so when I read this, I see what my gung-gung and po-po faced, as well as Mom and my aunties and uncles. My maternal grandparents passed before I was born, so oral histories are valuable to me as a way to connect to them. The paperback copy has an extra foreword and end notes about exhibitions added in 2018, so it seems like an odd omission to not mention the AJ Youtube video interviewing some of the same Delta Chinese folks (though the YT video credits John Jung as a resource). The comments on that and other videos of Delta Chinese seem surprised at thicc Southern accents coming out of Asian faces, but to me they sound just like my aunties and uncles, from that same second generation.
Some of the end parts seemed extraneous (southern Chinese Americans: they do wedding banquets like coastal Chinese Americans!), but they do demonstrate the uniqueness of a community that's close knit while geographically spread versus the distinct neighborhood lines of Chinatowns. When you're a minority of a minority, you hold tight to familiarity, especially in such a structurally segregated environment. I also felt like this could have spent more time on the complicated nuances of having stores in Black neighborhoods while often cultivating anti-Blackness as an assimilation tool because it's something the Asian American community continues to struggle with today.… (mais)