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Yanjing Recipe (Looking at China with Western Eyes)
Mr. Okuno loves food and is nicknamed "Food Maniac". He has rich gourmet experience and unique research on food. "Yanjing Cookbook" contains his essays about food, and his "foraging" footprints extend from Tokyo to Beijing. When writing about Chinese food, he tasted all the classic and luxurious dishes of the ancient capital. He also loved street snacks such as sour plum soup and roast mutton, and he could not forget private delicacies such as mustard mustard and lotus leaf porridge. When writin
68Reads8.5Score—Shelves
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Those Things in Beijing (Looking at China from Foreign Eyes)
"Things About Beijing" is a selected translation from a collection of Mr. Okuno's essays about Beijing in the 1930s and 1950s. It records his experiences of studying, working and visiting Beijing three times. It reviews the past events of his life in Beijing. It also writes about Beijing's scenery and people, and witnesses the city's changes in the tide of the times. Okuno believes that Beijing has the elegant and noble temperament of an ancient capital that has been preserved for thousands of y
6Reads8.2Score—Shelves
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What the Chinese Think (Looking at China with Foreign Eyes)
In the 1930s and 1940s, the Japanese Shintaro Okuno went to Beijing to study and teach, experiencing pure Beijing life and sensing the sentiment of Chinese culture. "Chinese Thoughts" is a selected translation of the essays written by Shintaro Okuno at that time. It tells what Mr. Okuno saw, heard, thought and felt when he lived in Beijing. It describes the humanities and customs of the ancient capital of Beijing, and involves anecdotes and comments about contemporary social and literary celebri
6Reads8.0Score—Shelves