FOOD
Eating Medicine
Despite safety warnings, fans of ancient “medicinal diets” try to eat their way to health
BOOKS
Booklist: An American Bum in China
Matthew Evans’s misguided travels are rife with schadenfreude
HEALTH
Minority Report
Ethnic cures join the longstanding debate between Western and Chinese medicine
NEWS
Viral Week Ep. 219
Patriotic PR, recalled relics, mercurial mothers, and chicken crossings—it’s Viral Week
FOOD
Mock Meat Revolution
Environmental concerns and a pork shortage are fueling a growing Chinese market in meat substitutes
BOOKS
Booklist: The Debt Collector
Zhejiang writer Wang Shou tackles confused morality and socioeconomic divides in this new Penguin novella
