BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Department of Asian Studies//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:Department of Asian Studies - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230305T1856Z-1678042601.7931-EO-58843-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20240328T092940Z CREATED:20230304T220813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230321T171834Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230330 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230401 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 […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The 2
022/23 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture
with guest spe
aker Professor Miranda Brown (University of Michigan)
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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.
Date & Time:
Thursday\, March 30\, 2023
5
:30pm (PDT) Reception with light refreshments
6:30pm-8:30pm (PDT) Lect
ure
Location:
Marine Drive Ballroom\, 2205 Lower Mall\, Vancouver
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Present
ed in English.
Free & open to the public
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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 Dumpling Therapy\, 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.
Date & Time:
Friday\, March 31\, 2023
4:00p
m – 6:00pm (PDT)
L
ocation:
Room 111\, Peter A. Allard School\, Allard Ha
ll\, 1822 E Mall Vancouver
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Presented in English
Free & open to the publ
ic
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Miranda Brown 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 blog and on Twitter (@Dong_Muda). You can also find her articles ab out the history of tea\, chop suey\, and Lunar New Years on Atlas Obscura.< /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.
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