Thomas DuBois | China Has Lost its Local Food

Thomas DuBois moved to Jinan, Shandong Province in 1992. He tells us about having to fight to make it onto the train, being invited by Chinese strangers to make food together at their home on his very first day in the city and shares his thoughts on how Chinese food culture has changed over the years. Thomas DuBois is a prolific author and his new book is "China in Seven Banquets: A Flavourful History."
Living History: Stories from the Opening of China is our new series of documentary interviews with Chinese, Americans and others about the experiences they had in the period between the reopening of China under Deng Xiaoping in 1979 and the Shanghai Expo in 2010. These crucial years and the people-to-people exchanges made during this time are a period whose memory we want to preserve with this series. Many of the stories we are recording here have never before been documented for the public. If you, too have a story from this time that you would like to tell us please do get in touch with us at [e-mail] - we are continuously filming more interviews.

[@thomasd4738]

the road isn't 山师大路, it's 山师东路

[@reflectingqueen]

funny way of pronouncing your last name Du Bois, for me, being European and having some years of French tuition!

[@thomasd4738]

True. We actually pronounce it the correct way, but many in the US are adamant about using the Anglicized pronunciation. The latter group left Catholic France as religious refugees and centuries later that remains firmly part of their identity.