Flavours of resilience: new Chinese immigrant restaurateurs and challenges in shaping the U.S. Chinese restaurant scene (1960s - 1980s)

• Main Author: Wong, Damien Wai Loon
• Other Authors: Zhou Taomo
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Humanities::History
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/171467
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In 1965, the United States of America (U.S.) passed the Immigration and Nationality Act – ushered a historic moment in American history, signalling an increase in immigrants entering the country. The period saw increased Chinese immigration, a drastic contrast to a history marked by exclusion and pr...