Books by Michelle T. King
“Michelle King is a historian of the Republican period, so this book is a real departure. It’s beautifully written. It’s about Fu Pei-mei who is typically described as Taiwan’s Julia Child. But as Michelle King points out, Fu Pei-mei started her TV show before Julia Child, hence you could just as easily say that Julia Child was the American Fu Pei-mei. Fu Pei-mei was very important in introducing Chinese food and cooking to audiences in Taiwan as that country was developing. Her cookbooks sometimes came out bilingually, so they introduced Chinese food to Western cooks as well, and she included European dishes in her shows, so the cosmopolitanism went still further.” Read more...
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Historian
Interviews where books by Michelle T. King were recommended
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Granta 169: China
by Thomas Meaney (editor) -
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Women and Their Warlords: Domesticating Militarism in Modern China
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Thoughts from the Ice-Drinker's Studio: Essays on China and the World
by Liang Qichao & Peter Zarrow (translator) -
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The Great Transformation: China's Road from Revolution to Reform
by Chen Jian & Odd Arne Westad -
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Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food
by Michelle T. King
The Best China Books of 2024, recommended by Jeffrey Wasserstrom
The Best China Books of 2024, recommended by Jeffrey Wasserstrom
From an issue of a literary magazine that brings together contemporary writing from across mainland China to books focusing on different periods of its 20th-century history, it’s been another good year for books about China available to English readers. Jeffrey Wasserstrom, a professor at UC Irvine and specialist in modern Chinese history, talks us through some of his favorite books about China published in 2024.
