Huángjīn Pàocài - Beryl Shereshewsky
And I feel like she is speaking for me when she is lamenting the poor use of leafy vegetables in western cuisine: “either overcooked or served brutally raw as some strange kind of virtue,” compared to the Chinese greens, which are “more generously portioned than the apologetic little dishes of spinach served on the side... and cooked as carefully... See more
Dan Wang • 2023 Letter
Splitting Hairs
Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship
By Sarah Gold McBride
Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship
By Sarah Gold McBride
Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship
I reckoned that every time Andy Warhola painted a tin of American soup it was his way of escaping from the flat brown fields of Eastern Europe where his parents were born. Every single tin of clam chowder got him nearer New York and away from living in Exile with his mother in Pittsburgh.
Deborah Levy, Things I don’t want to know