Tracking vanishing foods: a comparative study of the strategy and dynamics of a 'Chinese' diasporic identity in the UK

这个项目试图追踪泰恩赛德和大格拉斯哥正在消失的中国菜肴、食物或食品加工方法。它将调查这两个地区的中餐馆的餐饮做法和送货服务：大都市和郊区。通过这项调查，该项目旨在找出散居海外的华人群体在日常用餐、制作食物菜单或招待朋友时忽略甚至放弃准备某些食物的背景和原因。此外，该项目旨在理清食物和散居海外的身份之间的关联，以了解食物文化的演变和与食物有关的移民问题。使用民族志方法，该项目意味着绘制侨民身份的战略和动态图，并回答三个问题：何时、何地以及如何重建侨民身份。

This project attempts to track vanishing Chinese dishes, foods, orfood-processing methods in Tyneside and Greater Glasgow. It willinvestigate food practices in Chinese restaurants and delivery servicesin two settings in those two areas: metropolis and suburb. Throughthis investigation, the project aims to identify the contexts and reasonswhy some groups within the Chinese diaspora ignore or even give uppreparing certain food when having their daily meals, making foodmenus, or treating friends. Furthermore, the project intends todisentangle the correlation between food and diasporic identities tounderstand the evolution of food cultures and food-relatedimmigration issues. Using an ethnographic approach, the projectmeans to map the strategies and dynamics of diasporic identities andanswer three questions: when, where, and how re-establishingdiasporic identities occur.