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 enlarge | Authors: Jeffrey Alford, Naomi Duguid
Publisher: Artisan
Category: Book
List Price: $40.00
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 3592
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 376
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.8
Dimensions (in): 11.4 x 9.9 x 1.3
ISBN: 1579653014
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.59515
EAN: 9781579653019
ASIN: 1579653014
Publication Date: May 1, 2008
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 The Other Chinese August 6, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
A coffee table book glimpse into multi-ethnic China and its varied cuisines little known in the West. It is rich with travel monologues, wonderful photography and authentic recipes.
The other side of the politics July 24, 2008
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
I have the book it is gorgeous and recipes are very interesting - different that anything else I have in my 300+ cookbook collection
I have been having a debate with a Chinese American friend - which is relevant here:
Tibetan and other minorities are resentful of Han Chinese success. The Chinese are good business people and have been doing business all over Asia for centuries. I attribute this to cultural traits shared with other North Asians - Koreans and Japanese, and not by South Asians for the most part. As a result there has been resentment. The Filipinos did not like the Chinese because they dominated business. They also kept (or were kept) to themselves. In other areas like Indonesia and Vietnam there are many more Chinese - and that led to massacres in Indonesia and boat people - mostly ethnic Chinese - in Vietnam.
There is more:
"China consistently has pursued a policy of "taming" its far-flung western regions through economic and ethnic assimilation."
When the Communists came to power China was the "weak man of Asia" Not without reason China was paranoid about revisiting the foreign domination of the last century. When they looked around they found that most of their borders were inhabited by non-Han - and that concerned them. So they tried to assimilate them - probably in a pretty ham-handed, insensitive way. Even in the US cultural diversity is not always well respected although it has improved in our lifetimes. China has had a lot of trouble with its borders - there has been shooting with Russia, Vietnam, India.
"It may be the Tibetans' final chance to hold onto an ethnically, religiously and economically unique homeland before it is lost forever"
I do believe the Tibetan culture is unique and worth preserving - and it is not a given that it will be. That is not to say that to be a true Tibetan you cannot be educated and be financially successful. We saw a few years ago in New Mexico where Indians kept feet in both worlds at places like Acoma and Taos pueblos. American Indian culture and language in the US is in many cases gone forever and was not given any legal respect until quite recently. We heard this story again in Alaska last summer. And we see it in Oklahoma all the time which has a large Indian population - but a fragmented one because most were displaced from elsewhere. The Chinese government could use a good dose of cultural sensitivity - but I am not counting on it - the best comparison with China right now would be with the "Wild West" a hundred years ago - before environmental laws, unions, rule-of-law, an cultural tolerance.
Great Wall ,Great Recipes July 21, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China Another wonderful book from these authors. One I will turn to again and again. The instructions are clear and the results so far have been sooooo good!
The China many of us never see... July 8, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
One of the best travel-food books to hit the market so far in 2008. Inspired photography and gloriously informative text from parts of China that most of us never get to see.
Stunning!
It's a cookbook July 2, 2008
16 out of 19 found this review helpful
To the gentleman from china with the one-star rating. Patriotism can be a good thing. But this is a cookbook -- it's not a political tract. I own all the cookbooks this pair of folks has put out. They're wonderful writers, photographers and cooks. They show us all part of the world we'll never get to see.
Do they have opinions about Tibet ... quite possibly. I haven't received the book yet. But you waste your energy is posting a review like you did. It works against you, sir, and undercuts your cause. Reasonable people can disagree about the China/Tibet situation (can't they?). But to think that this cookbook is being released now to make a statement against China is just not plausible. China has plenty to be proud of (as the authors have shown in several of their earlier books). Your review does not reflect well on China.
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