Comments on: Fortune Cookie History

By: Jonathan Dresner

Jonathan Dresner — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 09:25:06 +0000

I think I have Chang’s book in my office somewhere: I’ll check it out. From her other work, though, I can say that she was more journalistic than historical in her approach to sources, and got into trouble because of it. The evidence presented in the NY Times article seems quite substantial, though, and matches what I know about the migration patterns.

By: Lidia Maylath

Lidia Maylath — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:23:17 +0000

In Iris Cheng’s book “Chinese Immigrant’s in America, A Narrative history,” there is a different story about the fortune cook history. I don’t know which story is more actual. However, history is written by human and is, in some cases, mistaken or twisted. As Hessler says in his book that the ones were written might be need to leave out, and the ones that left out might be more important. Who knows?

By: “Chinese” fortune cookies « Intercultural Communication

“Chinese” fortune cookies « Intercultural Communication — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:20:23 +0000

[...] by thuicc on January 17, 2008 The China history blog “Frog in a Well” has a post on the history of the fortune cookie. A grad student from Kanagawa University may have cracked the great riddle of Asian cuisine: the [...]