Full Description
Physics professor Zee writes about how to understand the menus in Chinese restaurants, explaining the characters, what they mean, and the colorful stories behind the names of various dishes. Anne Tyler (in the Washington Post) called Swallowing Clouds "a study of the very nature of Chinese culture. Zee has a quirky, personal style that draws the reader in."
Contents
Preface
Time Line
A Word about Pronunciation
Introduction
Beijing Men Built a Fire
Slicing through Water
Interlude 1: Phonetics, or Why Some Characters Look Horribly Complicated
Sleep of the Truly Inebriated
Swallowing Clouds
Chinese Pigs Stand
Interlude 2: The Appalling Ignorance of Some Scribes
A Delicacy for Aging Men
No Contest between Fish and a Bear with Eight Legs
Courtesans Do Not Eat Crabs
Interlude 3: To All You Carnivores
The Sweet Fragrance of Crops Ripening
How to Avoid Being Vulgar
The Pockmarked Woman and the Pearly Empress
Interlude 4: Words Are Like Our Children
Buddha Jumping over Walls
Act without Acting, Taste without Tasting
Interlude 5: Like Eating Potato Chips
The Sublime Faith in Illusions
Pieces of Her Heart
Elixirs and the Food of Health
From Banquets to Voyages of Discovery
Epilogue: All Banquets Must Come to an End
Afterword by Linda Rui Feng
Appendix A. How to Exercise Your Arm and Throat while Drinking
Appendix B. A Few Recipes
Notes
Bibliography
Table of Dynasties
Table of Some Common Radicals Used in this Book
Table of Characters and Radicals Cited by Chapter
Acknowledgments
A Final Note
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