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SUMMARY: 2022/23 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture: A Traveling Feast: The St
 ory of Chop Suey and the Journey of Chinese Banquet Culture to America
DESCRIPTION: The 2022/23 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with guest speaker
  Professor Miranda Brown (University of Michigan) Lecture: A Traveling Feas
 t: The Story of Chop Suey and the Journey of Chinese Banquet Culture to Ame
 rica Chances are good that if you encountered chop suey recently\, it wasn’
 t at a restaurant with any gourmet aspirations. Fifty […]
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 022/23 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture</strong><br /><strong>with guest spe
 aker Professor Miranda Brown (University of Michigan)</strong></p><h3>Lectu
 re: A Traveling Feast: The Story of Chop Suey and the Journey of Chinese Ba
 nquet Culture to America</h3><p>[caption id="attachment_58844" align="align
 center" width="620"]<img class="wp-image-58844 size-medium_large" src="http
 s://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2023/03/230301-Chop-Su
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 uey[/caption]</p><p>Chances are good that if you encountered chop suey rece
 ntly\, it wasn’t at a restaurant with any gourmet aspirations. Fifty years 
 ago\, foodies banished the goopy stir-fry from their menus. Since then\, ch
 op suey has largely been consigned to the realm of cheap takeout. But chop 
 suey wasn’t always the antithesis of fine Chinese. In centuries past\, it w
 as a staple of high-end banquets – on both sides of the Pacific. By tracing
  the journey of chop suey from eighteenth century Yangzhou to San Francisco
 : I use chop suey to tell a new\, transnational story about the origins of 
 Chinese-American cuisine.</p><p><span style="text-decoration: underline\;">
 <strong>Date & Time:</strong></span><br />Thursday\, March 30\, 2023<br />5
 :30pm (PDT) Reception with light refreshments<br />6:30pm-8:30pm (PDT) Lect
 ure</p><p><span style="text-decoration: underline\;"><strong>Location:</str
 ong></span><br />Marine Drive Ballroom\, 2205 Lower Mall\, Vancouver<br />(
 <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/EZJbVVXdmWHrQk388">view map</a>)</p><p>Present
 ed in English.<br />Free & open to the public</p><p>[buttons][button link_t
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  /><h3>Events in Conjunction</h3><h3>Research Seminar: Dumpling Therapy: Wh
 at Happens When the Classicist Actually Steps Out of the Ivory Tower</h3><p
 >In recent years\, humanities scholars have felt the urgency to take their 
 work to the public. But how easy is it for scholars\, especially classicist
 s\, to pull it off? This research seminar will focus on my on-going efforts
  to <em>Dumpling Therapy</em>\, which narrates Chinese food history for an 
 American public\, while challenging popular ideas about (culinary) authenti
 city\, identity\, and heritage. I’ll discuss the technical challenges of ba
 lancing accessibility with scholarly accuracy\, the intricacies of historic
  recipe reconstruction\, and the risks and rewards of non-traditional modes
  of historical writing.</p><p><span style="text-decoration: underline\;"><s
 trong>Date & Time:</strong></span><br />Friday\, March 31\, 2023<br />4:00p
 m – 6:00pm (PDT)</p><p><span style="text-decoration: underline\;"><strong>L
 ocation:</strong></span><br />Room 111\, Peter A. Allard School\, Allard Ha
 ll\, 1822 E Mall Vancouver<br />(<a href="https://goo.gl/maps/22FTo7EWyNP8y
 LRD9">view map</a>)</p><p>Presented in English<br />Free & open to the publ
 ic</p><p>[buttons][button link_text="Register for the Research Seminar" lin
 k_url="https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2022-23-yip-so-man-wat-memorial-lec
 ture/#event-form2"][/buttons]</p><hr /><h3>Speaker</h3><p><strong><img clas
 s="size-thumbnail wp-image-58845 alignleft" src="https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.
 ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2023/03/Miranda-Brown_2023-Wat-Lecture-150x1
 50.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" />Miranda Brown</strong> is Profess
 or of Chinese Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures who
  has taught Chinese history at the University of Michigan since 2002. In ol
 d age\, she has discovered her true passion: Chinese food. She is now writi
 ng a book on the history of Chinese food. In her free time\, she chronicles
  her efforts to re-imagine Chinese food with lots of milk in her <a href="h
 ttp://www.chinesefoodhistory.org/">blog</a> and on Twitter (@<a href="https
 ://twitter.com/Dong_Muda">Dong_Muda</a>). You can also find her articles ab
 out the history of tea\, chop suey\, and Lunar New Years on Atlas Obscura.<
 /p><hr /><h3>About the Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture</h3><p>The Yip So Ma
 n Wat Memorial Lectures are made possible by the generous support of Messrs
 . Alex and Chi Shum Watt in honour of their mother\, the late Mrs. Wat\, an
 d her passion for Chinese literature and culture.</p><p>[buttons][button li
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