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Sichuan food, globalization, and the Dao.
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Tapping the Mapo Doufu Source
A dish that contains multitudes, collapses peripheries and explains the rise and fall of empires.
Apr 11, 2021
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Laguna Woods: Globalization at its most deranged
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 attended by Taiwanese Presbyterians is being described as a “hate crime” connected to Chinese-Taiwanese geopolitics.
May 16
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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 beginning of the Year of the Pig, I am reading a passage in "Looking for Chengdu," a diary kept by the feminist Marxist anthropologist…
Oct 17, 2019
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Book Knife Swag
Part II of The Cross-stitched Pig
Apr 28
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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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What The Fire Taught Me
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Xi Jinping and John Cena are Rotten Pieces of Pork Offal
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Digital Rhythms from Stone Drums
Part I of The Cross-Stitched Pig
Apr 21
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The fires of Shang
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…
Apr 8
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Beef Noodle Soup Solidarity
How to fight polarization and invasion with the rich and messy archaeology of niuroumian.
Mar 5
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The Story of a Sweet Potato Man
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…
Feb 13
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Body-surfing with the Great Yu
Auspicious omens for the Year of the Tiger
Feb 1
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I Have Seen The Future and it is a Chinese Vegetable Washing Machine
But I am nonetheless concerned about "black technology" marketing and a possibly fake British kitchen appliance company.
Jan 23
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What The Fire Taught Me
The following essay has an interesting provenance. Last fall, the wonderful writer Chris Colin read my newsletter post about chicken wings and…
Jan 16
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Ritual Libations
Reasons to empty a glass after a stupid year
Dec 31, 2021
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What The Fire Taught Me
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Xi Jinping and John Cena are Rotten Pieces of Pork Offal
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