Reinventing the traditional Guangzhou teahouse : caterers, customers and cooks in post-socialist urban South China

This thesis, based on ten months of field research and archival studies in Guangzhou (Canton), centres on an ethnographic portrait of a 120-year old teahouse, a state enterprise which combines the functions of teahouse and restaurant in a single establishment with the help of 180 staff. I approach t...

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Main Author: Klein, Jakob Akiba
Published: SOAS, University of London 2004
Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.758541