China to Chinatown : Chinese food in the West / J.A.G. Roberts.

"Since Marco Polo first recorded his responses in 1275, the West's encounters with Chinese food have been a measure of the times. For Jesuit missionaries, eating the exotic food of the people was a way of understanding them; for the British merchants in the 19th-century treaty ports, Chine...

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Main Author: Roberts, J. A. G., 1935-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Reaktion, 2002.
Series:Globalities.
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Call Number: GT2853.C6 R63 2002
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