Detail: Panel Discussion with Roel Sterckx, Jakob Klein and Fuchsia Dunlop

Time ~ 6:45 PM - 7:45 PM (Doors 6.30pm)

A discussion of diet and cuisine’s role in shaping Chinese cultural identity. Roel Sterckx reveals ancient rituals and recipes, exploring the centrality of food to the religion and politics of dynastic China. Jakob Klein discusses food’s relationship to social status in the twentieth century. Fuchsia Dunlop concludes with a challenge to Western dietary taboos: explaining how non-Chinese can learn to appreciate pigs’ ears, and chicken’s feet as a genuine delicacies.
Roel Sterckx is the Joseph Needham Professor of Chinese History, Science, and Civilization at the University of Cambridge, and author of the forthcoming ‘The Empire of Sense: Food and Sacrifice in Early China’.

Jakob Klein is deputy chair of the SOAS Food Studies Centre.
Fuchsia Dunlop is a cook and award winning food writer, specialising in Chinese cuisine.

Tickets £10, Asia House Friends and concessions £5.