{"id":3323,"date":"2011-04-01T17:19:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T22:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/?p=3323"},"modified":"2011-04-01T17:19:29","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T22:19:29","slug":"from-a-ucla-asian-american-studies-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/01\/from-a-ucla-asian-american-studies-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"From a UCLA Asian American studies professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a lovely note from an Asian American studies professor at UCLA. It&#8217;s exciting to think of the book as a &#8220;staple.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>I am writing to say how much my students and I enjoy your wonderful book. \u00c2\u00a0It has become a staple reading in a seminar I teach on Asian American history through foodways. \u00c2\u00a0From your fortune-cookie detective work to the mysteries of General Tso&#8217;s chicken, to the plight of Chinese restaurant families and deliverymen, your book helps readers to think more deeply about things we take for granted. Your interwoven exploration of second-generation issues particularly resonates for many students who are the children of immigrants and refugees.<\/p>\n<p>Hope your writing and food adventures are going well! \u00c2\u00a0Looking forward to your next project.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a lovely note from an Asian American studies professor at UCLA. It&#8217;s exciting to think of the book as a &#8220;staple.&#8221; I am writing to say how much my students and I enjoy your wonderful book. \u00c2\u00a0It has become a staple reading in a seminar I teach on Asian American history through foodways. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reader-feedback"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-RB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3324,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions\/3324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}