The Cleaver and the Butterfly
Andrew LeonardSichuan food, globalization, and the Dao.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 129 | Founded | 7 years ago | Last Issue | 3 months ago |
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Chinese ginger at the Berkeley Bowl
At a gathering of guests, Cao Cao surveyed the crowd and announced, “We have all the delicacies we could wish for at this gathering of eminents, except for one thing: we lack some Yang River perch from...
The Name of the Game is Self-Cultivation
Now, as for transcendents, there are some who ascend bodily into the clouds, flying without wings; there are some who ride cloud-chariots hitched to dragons, and arrive thus at the steps of heaven; there are some who transform into birds...
Love Story: (1930s Wuxia Version)
(Front page of the Tianfeng newspaper from August 19, 1933. The beginning of chapter 340 of The Knight-Errants of The Shu Mountains occupies the upper half of the left-hand side.)
My planned next installment in the Climbing Mount Emei seri...
When Fantasy Becomes Flesh
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In the fall of 1935, a woman by...
Leg Rub Transcendence
Reader survey: If you needed assistance climbing Mount Emei, would you choose:
A. A sedan chair as pictured above?
B. A husky young man who might include leg massages as part of the service, as pictured below:
Alice Yan at The South Chin...
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