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A dish that contains multitudes, collapses peripheries and explains the rise and fall of empires.
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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. Harder than climbing the sky. On a Cathay Pacific flight from Hong Kong to Chengdu, in April 2019, a few weeks into the beginning of the Year of the Pig, I am reading a passage in "Looking for Chengdu," a diary kept by the feminist Marxist anthropologist…
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On Tuesday, a story I wrote about the joy of biking to Costco was published on a website called InsideHook. On Wednesday, life imitated art: I rode my bike to Costco to purchase supplies for a Golden State Warriors NBA Finals watching party that I will be hosting at my home on…
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I lost my appetite for my normal newsletter fare this afternoon when I read in the L.A. Times that Sunday’s mass shooting at an Irvine County church…
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Part II of The Cross-stitched Pig
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Part I of The Cross-Stitched Pig
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The fires of Shang burned long; they may be smoldering still. David N. Keightley, Late Shang Divination I fantasized this morning that one afternoon in…
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How to fight polarization and invasion with the rich and messy archaeology of niuroumian.
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I have checked the Amazon historical record: On November 8, 2015, just three days after a friend emailed me to suggest I commence some kind of…
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Auspicious omens for the Year of the Tiger
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But I am nonetheless concerned about "black technology" marketing and a possibly fake British kitchen appliance company.
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The Cleaver and the Butterfly

Sichuan food, globalization, and the Dao.

The Cleaver and the Butterfly

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