https://www.scmp.com/rss/330579/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com This week, “Chop Suey,” a 1929 painting by Edward Hopper, sold for nearly $92 million, a record for the celebrated American artist. The oil painting depicts two women seated in a Chinese restaurant. The setting is bare, typical of Hopper’s lonely depictions of 20th-century life. The only indication that the restaurant might be Chinese is a single teapot resting on the table and a sign outside the window that reads, “Chop Suey,” a dish created by Cantonese immigrants in America. Art historians... https://www.scmp.com/culture/where-chinese-restaurant-edward-hoppers-919-million-painting/article/3000247?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/where-chinese-restaurant-edward-hoppers-919-million-painting/article/3000247?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 16 Nov 2018 13:00:01 +0000 In this ad from the 1970s, detergent maker Calgon depicts its soap as the “ancient Chinese secret” behind Chinese laundromats. The stereotype of the Chinese laundry gets routinely parodied in the media, because so many Americans are familiar with the small, Chinese-owned laundry. To trace the origins of this, we have to go back to the California gold rush of 1849. Initially, the thousands of Chinese men who moved to the west worked in mines, but by the ‘70s, growing anti-Chinese sentiment... https://www.scmp.com/identity/why-chinese-laundry-stereotype-persists/article/3000121?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/identity/why-chinese-laundry-stereotype-persists/article/3000121?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 19 Sep 2018 12:41:50 +0000