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- Title
"The most modern dining hall in the city": Chinese Immigrants, Restaurants, and Social Spaces in St. John's, Newfoundland, 1918-1945.
- Authors
WRIGHT, MIRIAM
- Abstract
The article looks at Chinese immigrants in Newfoundland, focusing on the restaurants they opened in St. John's from 1918 through the mid-1940s. For the Chinese immigrants, restaurants were paths to economic stability and, for some, a way to establish themselves as respected members of the community. The restaurants were, however, also contested spaces, as civil authorities, drawing on racial, gendered, and class-based assumptions, saw them - and the social interactions taking place within them - as threatening to the moral order. This history of Chinese immigrants and their restaurants offers a diverse and complex urban history of St. John's.
- Subjects
CAFETERIAS; IMMIGRANTS; RESTAURANTS; ECONOMIC equilibrium; URBAN history
- Publication
Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region / Revue d'histoire de la région Atlantique, 2021, Vol 50, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
0044-5851
- Publication type
Article