Mediating authentic “Chineseness” and “Western palates”: Chinese restaurant menus in Toronto

Auteurs-es

  • Ernest Leung

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.25071/p1cra668

Biographie de l'auteur-e

  • Ernest Leung

    Ernest Leung is an MA candidate in the Joint Graduate Program in Communication & Culture of York University and Toronto Metropolitan University. His research interests include comedy studies, political economy of media, and cultural studies. A recipient of the Canada Graduate Scholarship and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship, he is working on his MA thesis, which examines the use of humour in stand-up comedy to address anti- Asian racism in North America during the COVID-19 pandemic. He is an associate of the York Centre for Asian Research and the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies. He holds an honours BA from the University of Toronto.

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2023-04-01

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Spring 2023: (Re)studying, (re)imagining, (re)presenting Canada through fatigue and hope

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Mediating authentic “Chineseness” and “Western palates”: Chinese restaurant menus in Toronto. (2023). Canada Watch. https://doi.org/10.25071/p1cra668