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Swallowing Clouds: A Playful Journey through Chinese Culture, Language, and Cuisine

Name: Swallowing Clouds: A Playful Journey through Chinese Culture, Language, and Cuisine
Brand: University of Washington Press
SKU: 9780295994208
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Contributors:

Anthony Zee, Linda Rui Feng (Afterword by)

Publisher:

University of Washington Press

Release Date:

2014-11-03

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Cooking, Foreign Language Study, History

Book Subcategory:

Regional & Ethnic, Chinese, Asia

Book Topic:

Chinese, China

Edition Description:

2nd Edition

ISBN 13:

9780295994208

Weight:

1.19 lbs

Size:

Pages:

386

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."

About the Author

A. Zee is professor of theoretical physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics and An Old Man's Toy: Gravity at Work and Play in Einstein's Universe.

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