'Joyce Chen's China': Using Food to Bridge a Cold-War Divide

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Born in Beijing in 1917, Joyce Chen learned to cook while hovering around her family’s chef. By 1949, as China’s Community Revolution was gaining steam, Chen fled, relocating with her husband and small children to Massachusetts at a time when U.S. anti-Asian sentiment was still high. Isolated from her friends and family in China, Chen coped by keeping busy, and she was busy. Through restaurants, cooking shows, cookbooks, and a documentary, Joyce Chen would introduce a new vision of China to America while helping influence culinary trends for years to come.

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