Jennifer 8. Lee was on a quest to find out how authentic American Chinese food is. In her book, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, she uses multiple themes to illustrate her findings and her research, such as diversity, food, race and history, but I think her book is mostly about the culture aspect of American-Chinese and Chinese people. I think the author’s purpose of writing was to inform people about the American-Chinese food and its origins. I also think she wanted to inform people about the differences between American-Chinese food and pure Chinese food.
Throughout Lee’s book, she illustrated her values of authentic chinese food by traveling to China to discover what authentic chinese food could be. However, I think she was a little bias when doing so because she is American-Chinese herself and this probably affected her opinions of American-Chinese food. Lee’s assumptions and assertions, however, do agree with those generally held in the field she did her research in. For example Jen Lin-Liu, the author of A Stir-Fried Journey Through China, also shed light on the differences between pure chinese …show more content…
Lee’s The Fortune Cookie Chronicle is a well-written book. The pages are written very eloquently and it is well detailed, however at some points in the book, it was too detailed. The book is also not very well-argue. She only contributed her opinions about the topic she researched, although, she made the book for anyone one to read and she did not target a specific group. However, in my opinion, I think that the author’s point of view is one-sided and I think she should have had someone elses opinion on the topic she researched. Overall, I think Lee’s book was well thought out. Her biggest strength of the book was her motivation because she put in a lot of effort, such as traveling to China, to find the information she needed to write the book, but her biggest weakness was the fact that some of her chapters went too in depth which caused it to get
Throughout Lee’s book, she illustrated her values of authentic chinese food by traveling to China to discover what authentic chinese food could be. However, I think she was a little bias when doing so because she is American-Chinese herself and this probably affected her opinions of American-Chinese food. Lee’s assumptions and assertions, however, do agree with those generally held in the field she did her research in. For example Jen Lin-Liu, the author of A Stir-Fried Journey Through China, also shed light on the differences between pure chinese …show more content…
Lee’s The Fortune Cookie Chronicle is a well-written book. The pages are written very eloquently and it is well detailed, however at some points in the book, it was too detailed. The book is also not very well-argue. She only contributed her opinions about the topic she researched, although, she made the book for anyone one to read and she did not target a specific group. However, in my opinion, I think that the author’s point of view is one-sided and I think she should have had someone elses opinion on the topic she researched. Overall, I think Lee’s book was well thought out. Her biggest strength of the book was her motivation because she put in a lot of effort, such as traveling to China, to find the information she needed to write the book, but her biggest weakness was the fact that some of her chapters went too in depth which caused it to get