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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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In a world going crazy with pandemics and authoritarianism, the "beautiful island" is showing the way
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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…
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First: an apology. This is the longest I’ve gone without publishing a newsletter post since the inception of The Cleaver and the Butterfly. Shameful…
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The following essay has an interesting provenance. Last fall, the wonderful writer Chris Colin read my newsletter post about chicken wings and…
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From North Carolina to Berkeley to Chengdu, a price-point sensitive love affair to die for. (The Cross-Stitched Pig, Part IV)
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A 50-year-old handwritten note weaves ancient Chinese numerology into a 1970s minicomputer
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Regular production of this newsletter was delayed over the last two weeks by the extensive preparations involved in putting together a feast for about…
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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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China's newest trade export: the art of humiliating self-criticism
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I own a cleaver made from the shrapnel of bombs lobbed by the Chinese Communists at the Taiwanese-controlled island of Jinmen from the late 1950s into…
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A tale of madness, pickled mustard greens, and productivity-enhancing Confucian to do lists. Recipe included.
Andrew Leonard
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