{"id":3560,"date":"2019-12-20T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/?p=3560"},"modified":"2022-02-07T22:43:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T03:43:05","slug":"chinese-restaurants-are-closing-and-that-may-be-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/20\/chinese-restaurants-are-closing-and-that-may-be-a-good-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese restaurants are decreasing in number, maybe."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"881\" height=\"523\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/NYTimes-Chinese-restaurants.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3562\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/NYTimes-Chinese-restaurants.png 881w, http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/NYTimes-Chinese-restaurants-300x178.png 300w, http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/NYTimes-Chinese-restaurants-768x456.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 881px) 100vw, 881px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/24\/upshot\/chinese-restaurants-closing-upward-mobility-second-generation.html\">Front-page article in The New York Times<\/a>  by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/amelia-nierenberg\">Amelia Nierenberg<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/quoctrung-bui\">Quoctrung Bui<\/a> about how Chinese restaurants are declining both in relative and absolute number in major metropolitan areas (based on Yelp data). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hypothesis is basically that the children don&#8217;t want to take over the restaurants and there aren&#8217;t an additional way of Chinese immigrants (e.g. the Fujianese) who can take over.  As I said restauranteurs told me, &#8220;We cook so our children don&#8217;t have to.&#8221; And the children don&#8217;t have to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also fun fact about this article, there are two Jennifer Lees interviewed in the piece. One is me. The other is Jennifer Lee, a professor of sociology at Columbia University and co-author of \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.russellsage.org\/asian-american-achievement-paradox\" target=\"_blank\">The Asian American Achievement Paradox<\/a>.\u201d As the Times put it, &#8220;She is not related to Jennifer 8. Lee.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Front-page article in The New York Times by Amelia Nierenberg\u00a0and\u00a0Quoctrung Bui about how Chinese restaurants are declining both in relative and absolute number in major metropolitan areas (based on Yelp data). The hypothesis is basically that the children don&#8217;t want to take over the restaurants and there aren&#8217;t an additional way of Chinese immigrants (e.g. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-food"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-Vq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3560"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3565,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions\/3565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}