“The most modern dining hall in the city”: Chinese Immigrants, Restaurants, and Social Spaces in St. John’s, Newfoundland, 1918–1945
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....
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ftuninewbrunojs:oai:ojs.journals.lib.unb.ca:article/32707 2023-05-15T17:21:39+02:00 “The most modern dining hall in the city”: Chinese Immigrants, Restaurants, and Social Spaces in St. John’s, Newfoundland, 1918–1945 Wright, Miriam 2022-01-19 text/html application/pdf https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/32707 eng eng Acadiensis Press https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/32707/1882527931 https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/32707/1882527908 https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/32707 Copyright (c) 2022 Miriam Wright Acadiensis; Vol. 50 No. 1 (2021); 5 - 33 1712-7432 0044-5851 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 2022 ftuninewbrunojs 2022-07-11T11:41:02Z 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. Cet article traite de la situation des immigrants chinois à Terre-Neuve en se concentrant sur les restaurants qu’ils ouvrirent à St. John’s de 1918 jusqu’au milieu des années 1940. Les restaurants étaient pour ces immigrants une voie vers la stabilité économique et, dans certains cas, un moyen de se tailler une place comme membres respectés de la communauté. Toutefois, les restaurants étaient aussi des endroits contestés alors que les autorités civiles, s’appuyant sur des suppositions en matière de race, de genre et de classe, les voyaient – ainsi que les interactions sociales qui y avaient lieu – comme une menace à l’ordre moral. Cette histoire d’immigrants chinois et de leurs restaurants illustre la diversité et la complexité de l’histoire urbaine de St. John’s. Article in Journal/Newspaper Newfoundland Terre-Neuve University of New Brunswick: Centre for Digital Scholarship Journals |
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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. Cet article traite de la situation des immigrants chinois à Terre-Neuve en se concentrant sur les restaurants qu’ils ouvrirent à St. John’s de 1918 jusqu’au milieu des années 1940. Les restaurants étaient pour ces immigrants une voie vers la stabilité économique et, dans certains cas, un moyen de se tailler une place comme membres respectés de la communauté. Toutefois, les restaurants étaient aussi des endroits contestés alors que les autorités civiles, s’appuyant sur des suppositions en matière de race, de genre et de classe, les voyaient – ainsi que les interactions sociales qui y avaient lieu – comme une menace à l’ordre moral. Cette histoire d’immigrants chinois et de leurs restaurants illustre la diversité et la complexité de l’histoire urbaine de St. John’s. |
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“The most modern dining hall in the city”: Chinese Immigrants, Restaurants, and Social Spaces in St. John’s, Newfoundland, 1918–1945 |
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“The most modern dining hall in the city”: Chinese Immigrants, Restaurants, and Social Spaces in St. John’s, Newfoundland, 1918–1945 |
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“the most modern dining hall in the city”: chinese immigrants, restaurants, and social spaces in st. john’s, newfoundland, 1918–1945 |
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