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Grain was in too
short supply to be wasted on barnyard animals, so peasants
actually prepared
food for their pigs during the Cultural
Revolution. Since the animals would not naturally graze on grass
and grain hulls, these items had to be made palatable by cooking
them. The grasses were boiled in water that had been used to
wash rice so that they retained some minimal nutritious value.
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The book was originally published on December 1, 2011 and
sold out its first printing within a month!
The second and third printings also sold out completely. In
2021, to mark the book's 10th anniversary, the authors updated
it with suggestions from readers and added stories and recipes. Amazon now has the
10th Anniversary Edition in stock. Click on the image above to
purchase your copy. If you'd prefer the Kindle
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Other Books by the Authors
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Business is booming as
thousands flock to China to seize explosive
opportunities. But knowing the right etiquette and the right
protocol - and being aware of the cultural differences - is
a must. In Chinese Business
Etiquette, Scott draws on more than 35 years of
experience dealing with the Chinese, provides up-to-date
advice on how to succeed, avoid gaffes, interpret behavior
and make positive impressions.
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In Born
American: A Chinese Woman's Dream of Liberty, Sasha
tells of her dramatic journey in a collection of stories.
Sasha came to America to escape political persecution,
achieve personal freedom and pursue happiness. She speaks
frankly about the
psychological damage done by a totalitarian system and
describes how such a system re-shaped family and morality in
China.
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Part murder mystery, part courtroom drama and part landmark
legal case study,
The Third Degree: The Triple Murder
that Shook Washington and Changed American Criminal Justice
tells the true, but forgotten, story of a
young Chinese man’s abuse by the police and his arduous,
seven-year journey through the legal system that that drew
in Warren G. Harding, William Howard Taft, Oliver Wendell
Holmes, John W. Davis and even J. Edgar Hoover and helped
lay the groundwork for the Supreme Court's famous Miranda
decision.
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A true story of money, murder, gambling, prostitution and
opium: the Chinese gang wars that engulfed New York’s
Chinatown from the 1890s through the 1930s.
Tong Wars: The Untold
Story of Vice, Money and Murder in New York's Chinatown
is historical true-crime set against the perfect landscape:
Tammany-era New York City. Representatives of rival tongs
(secret societies) corner the various vice markets using
admirably creative strategies. The book roars through three
decades of turmoil, with characters ranging from gangsters
and drug lords to reformers and do-gooders to judges,
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America's Chinese had a leader and a fighter in Wong Chin
Foo. A firebrand and a trailblazer, Wong, whose life in
chronicled in The First Chinese American: The Remarkable Life of Wong
Chin Foo, challenged Americans to live up to the
values they so freely espoused on one hand, and so utterly
failed to apply to the Chinese on the other. The first to
use the term "Chinese American," the first to organize an
association of Chinese voters and the first Chinese to
testify before Congress, he charted the path to an entirely
new identity - that of the Chinese American.
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Mandarin
Chinese at a Glance,
written by Scott and I-chuan Chen, is an attractive,
illustrated phrasebook for travelers. Perfect as a take-along
guide for visitors to China, it features general information
for visitors and bilingual lists of more than 1,500
most-often-used words and expressions for travelers, in the
form of phonetic spellings of Mandarin words with their
English translations.
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Hemmed in by prejudice and restrictive
laws, Chinese Americans lived in a defensive crouch at the
turn of the 20th century.
Three Tough Chinamen,
Scott's latest work, is the true story of three scrappy and
ambitious brothers who fought hard for their share of the
American dream, spoke out against injustice and defied laws
to defend their interests. It is due out in September and
can already be pre-ordered on Amazon.
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