A. Zee is professor of theoretical physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics and An Old Man¿s Toy: Gravity at Work and Play in Einstein¿s Universe.
A. Zee is professor of theoretical physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics and An Old Man¿s Toy: Gravity at Work and Play in Einstein¿s Universe.
Preface Time Line A Word about Pronunciation Introduction Beijing Men Built a Fire Slicing through Water Interlude 1: Phonetics, or Why Some Characters Look Horribly Complicated Sleep of the Truly Inebriated Swallowing Clouds Chinese Pigs Stand Interlude 2: The Appalling Ignorance of Some Scribes A Delicacy for Aging Men No Contest between Fish and a Bear with Eight Legs Courtesans Do Not Eat Crabs Interlude 3: To All You Carnivores The Sweet Fragrance of Crops Ripening How to Avoid Being Vulgar The Pockmarked Woman and the Pearly Empress Interlude 4: Words Are Like Our Children Buddha Jumping over Walls Act without Acting, Taste without Tasting Interlude 5: Like Eating Potato Chips The Sublime Faith in Illusions Pieces of Her Heart Elixirs and the Food of Health From Banquets to Voyages of Discovery Epilogue: All Banquets Must Come to an End Afterword by Linda Rui Feng Appendix A. How to Exercise Your Arm and Throat while Drinking Appendix B. A Few Recipes Notes Bibliography Table of Dynasties Table of Some Common Radicals Used in this Book Table of Characters and Radicals Cited by Chapter Acknowledgments A Final Note
Preface Time Line A Word about Pronunciation Introduction Beijing Men Built a Fire Slicing through Water Interlude 1: Phonetics, or Why Some Characters Look Horribly Complicated Sleep of the Truly Inebriated Swallowing Clouds Chinese Pigs Stand Interlude 2: The Appalling Ignorance of Some Scribes A Delicacy for Aging Men No Contest between Fish and a Bear with Eight Legs Courtesans Do Not Eat Crabs Interlude 3: To All You Carnivores The Sweet Fragrance of Crops Ripening How to Avoid Being Vulgar The Pockmarked Woman and the Pearly Empress Interlude 4: Words Are Like Our Children Buddha Jumping over Walls Act without Acting, Taste without Tasting Interlude 5: Like Eating Potato Chips The Sublime Faith in Illusions Pieces of Her Heart Elixirs and the Food of Health From Banquets to Voyages of Discovery Epilogue: All Banquets Must Come to an End Afterword by Linda Rui Feng Appendix A. How to Exercise Your Arm and Throat while Drinking Appendix B. A Few Recipes Notes Bibliography Table of Dynasties Table of Some Common Radicals Used in this Book Table of Characters and Radicals Cited by Chapter Acknowledgments A Final Note
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