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Sticky Rice and the Fact of Being Chinese
What makes us Chinese? Our looks, our language or the food we eat? Linda Fang explores the
aspects that make a person truly Chinese. The Chinese people’s favorite food—sticky rice together
with its humorous and sometimes even hilarious stories plays an important role in this revelation of
culture.
Drawing Snakes and Adding Feet, Don’t We All?
Chinese is a story language. The words we speak, the expressions we use are stories. Here,
Linda shares several stories of Chinese expressions such as “Drawing a Snake and Adding Feet,” “Pulling the
Seedlings to Make Them Grow,” and “Guarding a Tree to Catch a Rabbit,” etc., Listeners can look into
their own lives and see the universal truth in those stories and come to the conclusion that though
we are all different, we are still all alike.
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