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The Impossible Dictionary of Truth
Or: How everything I knew about hogs in Chinese homes was wrong. The Cross-stitched Pig, Part III
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The Road to Shu is Hard
The road to Shu is hard. Harder than climbing the sky. On a Cathay Pacific flight from Hong Kong to Chengdu, in April 2019, a few weeks into the…
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Tapping the Mapo Doufu Source
A dish that contains multitudes, collapses peripheries and explains the rise and fall of empires.
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I Have Seen The Future and it is a Chinese Vegetable Washing Machine
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In Praise of Taiwan
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The Road to Shu is Hard
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Joan of Sichuan
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A Unified Theory of Pork Belly
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A Supreme Court Pork Surprise
I am stunned and delighted to share with readers the news that this morning the Supreme Court upheld California’s law against the sale of pork sourced…
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The Soybean is Everything
A tale of paradox and revelation. Part I
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Confessions of a Sierra Pale Ale Sinner
There is no escape from the dark workings of historical predetermination
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Kunta Kinte and Taiwanese Democracy
How "Roots" changed the history of East Asia... at least for a little while
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Dreaming of Sanxingdui
A story about China that celebrates difference, rebukes authoritarianism, and exults in complexity. Part IV of The Annals of Bronze Age Fusion
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Encouraged by the Moon
While waiting for my coffee to brew this morning I was skimming through Frontier Taiwan, a collection of translated Taiwanese poetry, and was delighted…
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The Original Sin of Competitive Feasting
From Neolithic dinner parties to the "vast, existential inequality" of the Shang, as told by culinary ware. Part III of The Annals of Bronze Age Fusion
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The Cleaver and the Butterfly
Sichuan food, globalization, and the Dao.

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