| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

Shopping at Giant Foods: Chinese American Supermarkets in Northern California. By Alfred Yee. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. xii, 193 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-295-98304-3.)

The scholarship on Chinese American history has advanced considerably beyond the requisite railroads and exclusion, but we still know far too little about the legacy of the Chinese in the United States. Alfred Yee's recent study on supermarkets owned by Chinese Americans in northern California is therefore a welcome addition. Spanning the period from the emergence of the modern supermarket in 1930 to roughly the end of the 1960s, Shopping at Giant Foods is noteworthy for several reasons. Yee documents the presence of Chinese American–owned stores that primarily served the non-Asian working-class neighborhoods that were part of the post–World War II suburban growth in cities such as Sacramento, unlike currently successful stores such as Ranch 99 that cater to Chinese and Asian American clientele. Another important element of the study is that it gives us insight into the community of Chinese immigrants and descendants that had linkages to the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 and into the infusion of new arrivals resulting from the War Brides Act of 1945. In addition, this work can and should be seen as part of a growing literature on food in U.S. history and culture.

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