CHINA FOOD AND CULTURE

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http://www.21food.com/
21Food.com has a product directory for China Food & Beverage Online.
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http://chinesefood.about.com/library/blchineseing1.htm
About.com: Chinese Food indicates the possible origin of sweet and sour sauce. Has recipes. has information on the Chinese New Year; Hunan cuisine; the Ying Yang of Chinese Cooking; and Chinese recipes. The 5-spice recipe is discussed. has the top 10 Chinese foods: from fish to fowl.
Accessed June 21, 2010
http://chinesefood.about.com/cs/eggfooyung1/a/eggfooyung.htm
About.com: Chinese Food has a discussion of egg foo yung. Gives some background and includes recipes.
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http://www.allchinanet.com/chinese_food/northern_chinese_cuisine.shtml
allChinanet.com Chinese food has links to Cantonese Cuisine, Szechuan Chinese, Northern Chinese, and Eastern Chinese food.
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http://www.america.gov/st/diversity-english/2009/February/20090212085747mlenuhret0.7881586.html
America.gov has a paper by Jennifer Lee on the Fortune cookie.
Accessed April 30, 2010
http://www.asiasociety.org/style-living/food-recipes
Asia Society in food and recipes. In addition to recipes, there are a number of different articles including those on :Food in Chinese Culture, The Wonderful World of Korean Foods. One needs to look around the site a bit to find the articles.
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http://asiarecipe.com/china.html
AsiaRecipe.Com has country information, culture, cooking methods, ingredients, recipes, discussion regarding China.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/news_and_events/events_chinesenewyear.shtml
bbc.co.uk has information on Chinese cuisine, foods and food habits. Includes recipes.
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http://beijingvisitor.blogspot.com/2006/09/mealtime-etiquette.html
BeijingVisitor Blog has information on Chinese mealtime etiquette.
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http://chetday.com/chinesecuisine.htm
Chet Day's Health & Beyond has iinfomration and recipes of Chinese Cantonese Cuisine.
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http://www.china.org.cn/english/index.htm
China Through A Lens is the China Internet Information Center in a variety of languages. Has a range of information, facts, and figures. Is truly an information network.
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http://www.chinasprout.com/
China Sprout promotes learning of Chinese language and culture by providing Chinese and English books relating to Chinese language, Chinese test, Chinese food, Chinese zodiac, Chinese symbols, Chinese music, Chinese tea, Chinese calligraphy, Chinese New Year, Moon Festival, Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Chinese Arts. We also sell Chinese crafts, Chinese clothes and silk clothing.
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http://www.index-china-food.com/index-china-food/tea-culture.htm
China.com has discussion and information on the China Tea Culture
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http://www.chinatownconnection.com/chinese_food.htm
ChinatownConnection.com has Chiense food: history, popularity and health.
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http://www.chinatravel.com/focus/mid-autumn-festival/
Chinatravel.com has information on the mid-autumn festival 2009. Has time, history and legends regarding this Chinese festival.
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http://zhongwen.com/
Chinese Characters and Culture is an online Chinese dictionary.
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http://www.c-c-c.org/
Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco has information Including Celebration of the Chinese New Year.
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http://www.chinahand.net/products-en-123/shandong-food.htm
China hand discusses eight cuisine branches of Chinese food. Includes Anhui Cuisine, Fujian Cuisine, Guangdong Cuisine, Hunan Cuisine, Shandong Cuisine,Sichuan Cuisine
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http://www.chinawok.com/chinese-recipes/cantonese-guangdong-cuisine.html
ChinaWok discusses Cantonese (Guangdong) Cuisine.
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http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art46897.asp
Chinese Food Site has Chinese Tofu 101 with information and directions.

http://www.ChineseHomeCooking.com/
chineseHomeCooking.com website has various sections from authentic Chinese recipes, to explanation and description of Chinese cooking techniques, seasonings, and spices. We are also constantly expanding the website, and take pride in putting up the highest quality content for our visitors.
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http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/
Chinese Culture Core 9 is a course available at Brooklyn College.
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http://www.chineseculture.net/
Chinese Culture Net has news, bookstore, music, music store, association, translation, people links regarding Chinese.
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http://www.archives.gov/locations/finding-aids/chinese-immigration.html
Chinese Immigration and the Chinese in the United States is a series of articles which include: Introduction, District Courts of the United States (Record Group 21), Bureau of the Census (RG 29), U.S. Customs Service (RG 36), Immigration and Naturalization Service (RG 85), Public Health Service (RG 90), United States Attorneys (RG 118), U.S. Courts of Appeals (RG 276), United States Marshals Service (RG 527)
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http://www.eatingchina.com
eating china Chinese Food Culture and History - a culinary journey through the cuisine of China and Taiwan
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http://www.chinesefood-recipes.com
Chinese Food-Recipes is a one-Stop Guide to Chinese Food, Cooking and Recipes with tips, glossary of ingredients and cooking terms, equipment, methods and techniques used.
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http://www.china.org.cn/english/imperial/26127.htm
Chinese Imperial Cuisine has a discussion of Shandong Cuisine. Chinese Imperial Cuisines has information on Imperial food in the Ming gynasty.Chinese Imperial Cuisines has a discussion of Fujian cuisine.
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http://www.chinesefooddiy.com/about4_healthbuild5.htm
Chinesefooddiy has information on Chinese food and health building.
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http://www.chinatownconnection.com/chinese_food.htm
chinatownconnection.com has information on Chinese food, including history.
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http://www.cnd.org/
Chinese News Digest has chinese and English translations on-line.
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http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/438/CHINA/chinese_new_year.html
Chinese New Year discussion. Has links on the 15-day celebration, traditional New Year foods, Chiense New Year Decorations, and Taboos and superstitutions of Chinese New Year.
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http://www.elca.org/countrypackets/china/desc.html
Country Packets has information about the country, people, government, economy, and other informaiton on China.
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http://chinesefood.about.com/od/chinesedishfaqs/f/lomeinchowmein.htm
Difference Between Lo Mein and Chow Mein?

http://www.easterntea.com/tea/tang.htm
EasternTea.com has information on tea drinking in the Tang Dynasty.
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http://www.eatingchina.com/articles/timeline.htm
Eating China has a Chinese food history timeline.
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http://www.echinafood.com/
eChinaFood has information and products related to Chinese food culture. Has products, information, and market information.
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http://www.ethnicfoodsco.com/China/dimsum.htm
Ethnic foods Co. discusses the Chinese culinary tradiation of Dim Sum. Also, Ethnic Foods Co. has information on Chinese culinary culture.
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http://explore.cornell.edu/index.cfm
Explore Cornell has a variety of interesting links, including a link to a bettle collection and the vast collectionon artifacts pertaining to China, Japan, Korea and Tibet.
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http://www.flavorandfortune.com/dataaccess/article.php?ID=52
Flavor & Fortune has a discussion by Judy Ross of the fortune cookie.
Accessed April 30, 2010
http://teaching.ucdavis.edu/nut120a/0029.htm
FOOD, HISTORY, CHINA (PART 1) by Louis Grivetti
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http://www.askasia.org/frclasrm/readings/r000044.htm
Food in Chinese Culture is an article adapted from K.C. Chang, Food in Chinese Culture: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1977. Reprinted with permission from Yale University Press.
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http://www.foodbycountry.com/Algeria-to-France/China.html
Food In Every Country has geography, history, and the food of China.
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http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodasian.html#friedrice
Food Time Line has a discussion of the history of fried rice in China and other locations.
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http://fulltummies.blogspot.com/2009/03/gyoza-chinese-dumplings-aka-pot.html
full tummies discusses the Chinese dumplings, the "pot stickers".
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http://www.shanghaifinance.com/food/chinesefood.php
has A brief introduction of Chinese food.
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http://www.gio.gov.tw/info/festival_c/index_e.htm
Holidays and Festivals in Taiwan has information on commemorative holidays and traditional festivals. Includes information on grave cakes.
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http://www.index-china-food.com/food-culture.htm
Index-China.com has an article adapted by Chang, K.C. 1977. Food in Chinese Culture: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives.
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http://www.infoplease.com/spot/chinesenewyear1.html
Infoplease has information on the Chinese New Year is The Year of the Ox discussion.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.html
Internet East Asian History Sourcebook has documents and web links.
Accessed June 21, 2010
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/china/food/tofu.htm
Kidipede has a discussion of tofu. Also, Kidipede has information on ancient Chiense food.
Accessed April 30, 2010
http://www.america.gov/st/diversity-english/2009/February/20090212085747mlenuhret0.7881586.html
Lee, Jennifer. 2009February. The American Fortune Cookie discusses the real origin of the "Chinese" fortune cookie.
Accessed June 21, 2010
http://www.marimari.com/content/malaysia/food/main.html
Marimari.com has food in Malaysia that includes Malay food, Chinese food, Hawker, Nyonya food, and breakfast.
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http://raider.muc.edu/re/WorldReligions/Origin%20of%20Obon.htm
Origin of Obon is a Buddhist observance in Chine and than introduced into Japan.
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http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/culture/food/food.html
Silk Road Seattle has information on the food of Central Asian nomads.
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http://www.scmp.com/
South China Morning Post, Hong Kong's English language newspaper, bringing you daily news and business updates covering Hong Kong, Greater China and Asia.
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http://www.globalgourmet.com/destinations/china/
The Global Gourmet has information on cooking in China. Includes many recipes.
Accessed April 30, 2010
http://www.travelchinaguide.com/intro/cuisine.htm
TravelChinaGuide.com has a discussion of China food culture. Also has a discussion of Chiense Music.
Accessed April 30, 2010
http://www.quanskitchen-boston.com/cuisine/eightregional.htm
Quan's Kitchen has eight regional variations of Chinese cuisine.
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http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/438/CHINA/traditional_foods.html
Uvic CA has a discussion of traditional New Years Chinese foods. The discussion is from student pages by students in a class. There are also links to a discussion of the HARVEST There is also information on the Chinese New Year
Accessed June 21, 2010
http://www.yamasausa.com/Yamasa_soy.htm
Yamasa Corporation USA has the history of soysauce in both China and Japan. Includes recipes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/05/magazine/05food-t.html?_r=3&ref=magazine&oref=login
Why Chinese food in America is so unimaginative is an article by Nicole Mones. Another article by Jennifer Lee discusses fortune cookies.
Accessed April 30, 2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_cuisine
Wikipedia has information on Chinese cuisine. They indicate eight main regional cuisines. For example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szechuan_cuisineWikipedia is a discussion of Szechuan cuisine.
Accessed April 30, 2010

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Chinese_cuisine
wikipedia has a discussion on American Chinese cuisine. tea brick
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RECIPES to Top

http://asiarecipe.com/china.html
AsiaRecipe.Com has country information, culture, cooking methods, ingredients, recipes, discussion regarding China.
Accessed June 21, 2010
http://chinesefooddiy.com/
Authentic Chinese Recipes Chinese Foodiy has recipes, cooking tips, photo albumin, chinese cookbook and other information. Has real and healthy Chinese food - 500+ recipes, 60+ colorful Chinese dish photos, 100+ cooking tips and serving advices. Get FREE recipes emailed to you in 5 minutes.
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http://www.silkroadcn.com/beijing/beijingduck.htm
Beijing Duck has information and preparation procedures.
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http://www.chinesefood-recipes.com
Chinese Food-Recipes is your One-Stop Guide to Chinese Food, Cooking and Recipes with tips, glossary of ingredients and cooking terms, equipment, methods and techniques used.
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http://www.west-meet-east.com/fdsich.htm
Feng-Sui is the Chinese page for this. Includes information regarding Sichuan Foods.
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http://fulltummies.blogspot.com/2009/03/gyoza-chinese-dumplings-aka-pot.html
Gyoza (Chinese dumplings, aka "pot stickers" has a recipe.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/04/dining/sichuan-s-signature-fire-is-going-out-or-is-it.html
New York Times Dining & Wine has information on Sichuan's Signature "fire".
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http://www.recipesource.com/ethnic/asia/chinese/
Recipe Source has Chinese recipes.
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http://www.recipesource.com/ethnic/asia/chinese/
SOAR Chinese recipes.
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http://www.chinesefooddiy.com/links_foodcooking.htm
Chinese Fooddiy has Chinese recipes, cookbooks, programs and other information.
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DEMOGRAPHICS, ECONOMICS, DEVELOPMENT to Top

http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/facts_fs.html?fips=CH&dynMapId=362&mainURL=http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/
China, National Geographic Map Machine
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http://www.economywatch.com/world_economy/china/
Economy Watch has information and analysis of the Chinese economy.
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http://www.prb.org/TemplateTop.cfm?Section=PRB_Country_Profiles&template=/customsource/countryprofile/countryprofiledisplay.cfm&Country=419
Population Reference Bureau has information on China's population with information, articles and concerns.
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http://www.prb.org/
Population Reference Bureau covers environment, HIV/AIDS, population trends, reproductive health, education, employment, health, gender, income poverty, ethnicity, 2000 census for Asia/Pacific, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America and the Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Updated: Wednesday, December 15, 2010.