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A Geek in Chinaby: Matthew Christensen
Tokyo Japan:
Tuttle Publishing an Imprint of Periplus Editions (HK) 2016, $16.95, Hardbound
ISBN: 978-0-8048-4469-7
Summer Volume: 2017 Issue: 24(2) page(s): 22
This book is not
a cookbook; it
has no recipes.
Intended for travelers, its six chapters titled: China
Past and Present; Chinese Culture and Food; Chinese
Character and Society; The Face of Urban China; The
Chinese at Play; Visiting China help discover the ‘real
China.’ Lots of color photographs on almost every page
helps one explore what it calls ‘’The China Few People
See’ with its many color photographs on almost every
page. Read about bullet trains, visiting Taiwan and Hong
Kong, the rise of the middle class, the many religions,
internet and phone culture, cinema, music, television,
and snack food and dim sum, fast food, Western food,
and more.
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