Cooking school–Sichuan edition

Every day, I leave class smelling like fish guts and chili oil. It’s heaven.

Beijing in a time of coronavirus

In 2003, I had just started working at the National University of Singapore, and not long after that, something else came to Singapore–SARS.

Food studies in Beijing

We all knew it would come to this.

Hangzhou Food and Beverage Innovation Forum (食品饮料创新论坛)

Forget the Shanghai Auto Show. The real fun was in Hangzhou.

FDDI talk: China’s dairy industry (海外访问学者谈中国的乳业)

Short Q&A video produced by the Fudan Development Institute. https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/O_lXJjOkW54Rjoqt8kN1nQ

Shanghai!

Shanghai is like nowhere in the world. It is one of a very few places that just demands to be written with an exclamation point.

And now I am in it.

What’s behind the rapprochement between China and the Vatican?

Originally posted in East Asia Forum 23 February 2017 The authority to appoint bishops has been a key point of contention in the restoration of relations between China and the Vatican. Since formally severing relations in 1951, China has refused torecognise any papal authority over the Chinese Church, particularly in appointing episcopal leadership. For its part, the…