The Emperor’s Feast: ‘A tasty portrait of a nation’ –Sunday Telegraph

by	Jonathan Clements

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Weight	0.548 kg
Dimensions	3.2 × 15.8 × 23.6 cm
by	Jonathan Clements
Format	Hardback
Language	English
Pages	320
Publisher	Hodder & Stoughton
Year Published	2021-2-11
Imprint	Hodder & Stoughton
Publication City/Country	London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10	1529332427
About The Author	Dr Jonathan Clements is a historian and TV presenter specialising in East Asia. He was visiting professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University in China from 2013 to 2019 and is the author of several books on the history of China, including A Brief History of China, The Art of War: A New Translation, and Confucius: A Biography. His history of the Silk Road and his lives of the First Emperor, Empress Wu and Wellington Koo have all been translated into Chinese. Dr Clements has presented several seasons of Route Awakening (National Geographic), an award-winning television series about icons of Chinese culture.
	''Cleverly uses food – the part of Chinese culture with which many western people are most familiar – as a way of charting the complex history of China, a vast country made up of many peoples, cultures and cuisines . . . This is a splendid introduction to the cooking and history of China, filled with surprising details on the origins of many famous dishes'
Other text	The journey of Chinese food over 5,000 years of history – and the story it tells us about the land and its people.