Asia Change and integration: China’s legacy after 40 years of economic transformation January 30, 2020 0 Image Credit: RedEnvelopes by Ksionic/Flickr; licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Written by Qing Shan Ding. Saturday 25 January 2020 marked the start of the Chinese Lunar…
China The eternal debate: Do all Chinese outbound tourists want to eat Chinese food? Answer: No. Do all Chinese outbound tourists prefer to eat à la chinoise? Yes February 12, 2019 1 Written by Wolfgang Georg Arlt. A little more than two hundred years ago, in January 1817, one of the greatest banquets in the history of…
China Why Chopsticks? Their Origin and Development in Asian Culinary Culture July 29, 2015 0 Written by Q. Edward Wang. Chopsticks are ubiquitous in Asia. They are so essential for one’s daily life in the region, or the “chopsticks cultural sphere”…
Sustainable Development Reducing Food Waste to Boost China’s Long-term Food Security May 19, 2015 0 Written by Zhang-Yue Zhou. What is food waste? According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, food waste at the consumption stage is…
China-Africa Chinese agriculture in the wake of the global food crisis May 13, 2015 0 Written by Francesca Bray. In 2007-8 a food crisis rocked the world. A concatenation of climatic, economic and financial factors sent global food prices rocketing.…
Culture and Society Chinese food culture: Influences from within and without May 5, 2015 1 Written by Ken Hom. In Food in Chinese Culture (Yale, 1978), Michael Freeman writes that any cuisine worthy of the name comes not from a single tradition,…
