7 MINUTE READ Author Across Cultures Yang-May Ooi’s trail of her Hakka roots takes her to Jonathan Spence’s book God’s Chinese Son, the true story of Hong Xiuquan, who believed he was Jesus’s younger brother. In this extraordinary real life history, Spence weaves a tale of Christianity, Chinese religion and political discontent that all came... Continue Reading →
Pastrami: From an Old Empire to the New World
7 MINUTE READ Author Across Cultures Yang-May Ooi can buy pastrami at her local M&S. But whenever she eats it, she thinks of New York. Curious about how a Jewish deli favourite got there, she follows a trail through Romania, the Ottoman Empire and Central Asia to see how this Eastern European food travelled and... Continue Reading →