Swallowing clouds : a playful journey through Chinese culture, language, and cuisine / A. Zee ; with a new afterword by Linda Rui Feng.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zee, A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Anecdotes.

China.

Genre:

Anecdotes.

Physical Description:

382 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

2015 edition.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2015]

Contents:

1 Beijing Men Built a Fire 23

2 Slicing through Water 33

Interlude 1 Phonetics, or Why Some Characters Look Horribly Complicated 47

3 Sleep of the Truly Inebriated 53

4 Swallowing Clouds 67

5 Chinese Pigs Stand 79

Interlude 2 The Appalling Ignorance of Some Scribes 91

6 A Delicacy for Aging Men 97

7 No Contest between Fish and a Bear with Eight Legs 109

8 Courtesans Do Not Eat Crabs 123

Interlude 3 To All You Carnivores 137

9 The Sweet Fragrance of Crops Ripening 139

10 How to Avoid Being Vulgar 155

11 The Pockmarked Woman and the Pearly Empress 171

Interlude 4 Words Are hike Our Children 189

12 Buddha Jumping over Walls 193

13 Act without Acting, Taste without Tasting 205

Interlude 5 Like Eating Potato Chips 229

14 The Sublime Faith in Illusions 237

15 Pieces of Her Heart 247

16 Elixirs and the Food of Health 261

17 From Banquets to Voyages of Discovery 281.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1990.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-368).

ISBN:

0295994207

9780295994208

OCLC:

875520748

Publisher Number:

99960831101