Yong Chen

American diners began to flock to Chinese restaurants more than a century ago, making Chinese food the first mass-consumed cuisine in the United States. By 1980, it had become the country's most popular ethnic cuisine. Chop Suey, USA offers the first comprehensive interpretation of the rise of Chinese food, revealing the forces that made it ubiquitous in the American gastronomic landscape and turned the country into an empire of consumption.

When the eggs on Miz Fannie Mae's Easter hat begin to hatch in church the congregation proclaims a miracle.

Shu-li, an infant girl who had to be sent away by her family in China, is adopted by an American family and renamed Joy.