Chop Fry Watch Learn

Date and Time for this Past Event

• Thursday, Feb 13, 2025  6pm - 8pm

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In 1949, a young Chinese housewife named Fu Pei-mei arrived in Taiwan and transformed herself from a cooking novice into a culinary master. Through her four-decade career as a cookbook author and television cooking instructor, she became the definitive authority on Chinese cuisine. Years later, historian Michelle T. King discovered in her mother's collection of Fu's cookbooks not just recipes of her childhood, but a vivid story of how a generation of middle-class housewives navigated tremendous global changes in the post-war era.

Chop Fry Watch Learn presents Chinese food as both an inheritance of tradition and a modern creation shaped by post-war transformations, including the rise of working women, mass media, and innovative kitchen tools. Fu's legacy continues through her cookbooks, which have become beloved symbols of cultural memory in Chinese communities worldwide. Through interviews with fans across generations and intimate family stories, King illuminates Chinese cuisine from the perspective of the family dinner table, offering a rich feast of insights for all those seeking to find their histories in the kitchen.

Speaker: Michelle T. King, 現為北卡羅來納大學教堂山分校副教授，專攻中國現代性別史和飲食史研究。她的著作包括《Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food》(2024)、《Between Birth and Death: Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century China》(2014)等。她曾獲2020-21年度美國國家人文基金會公共學者獎項，目前與家人居住在教堂山。
Michelle T. King, Associate professor of History at UNC Chapel Hill, specializing in Chinese gender and food history. She was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars grant for Chop Fry Watch Learn.

Moderator: Fan Yang, Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Maryland. A scholar of transnational media studies.

Date 2/13, Thursday, 6:00 - 7:30 pm

Language English

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