Yuanxiao is the name she used! I've gone over to the wikipedia entry and gosh, those look so toothsome. I'm not a big sesame fan so I probably wouldn't like that flavor, but if I run into some filled with red bean paste...
I didn't go into this in reviewing either of Chao's books (just too many other aspects to talk about!), but she talks a lot about regional differences in food etc. in different parts of China. She lived MANY different places (her family moved a few times when she was young, and then her husband the linguist was going hither and yon to study dialects, and THEN the university moved and moved again to stay ahead of the advancing Japanese army... So she had been many places, and then sometimes her husband pops in with a footnote about how things are done in his own hometown.
I looked this up when I first read Autobiography of a Chinese Woman, and apparently there was an academic exception to the Exclusion Act - both for Chinese college students studying at American universities, and for Chinese academics teaching there. IIRC, Yuenren Chao studied philosophy in the US and then came back as a linguistics professor.
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Date: 2021-12-16 04:51 pm (UTC)I didn't go into this in reviewing either of Chao's books (just too many other aspects to talk about!), but she talks a lot about regional differences in food etc. in different parts of China. She lived MANY different places (her family moved a few times when she was young, and then her husband the linguist was going hither and yon to study dialects, and THEN the university moved and moved again to stay ahead of the advancing Japanese army... So she had been many places, and then sometimes her husband pops in with a footnote about how things are done in his own hometown.
I looked this up when I first read Autobiography of a Chinese Woman, and apparently there was an academic exception to the Exclusion Act - both for Chinese college students studying at American universities, and for Chinese academics teaching there. IIRC, Yuenren Chao studied philosophy in the US and then came back as a linguistics professor.