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- ISBN 9780295994208
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 03 Nov 2014
- Publisher: University of Washington Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Physics professor Zee writes about how to understand the menus in Chinese restaurants, explaining the characters, what they mean, and the colorful stories behind the names of various dishes. Anne Tyler (in the Washington Post) called Swallowing Clouds "a study of the very nature of Chinese culture. Zee has a quirky, personal style that draws the reader in."
A. Zee is professor of theoretical physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics and An Old Man’s Toy: Gravity at Work and Play in Einstein’s Universe.
