Chinese Cooking Demystified: Chris Thomas and Stephanie Li visit Shaxi!

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I'm coming to you again this week from the lovely town of Shaxi in southwest China's Yunnan province. It's actually my last day here. I'm flying back to Beijing this afternoon after a month-long, unimaginably productive, thoroughly wonderful retreat with other members of my band Chun Xio Spring and Autumn, which as I've mentioned before, reformed earlier this year, reformed in the sense of putting ourselves back together, not, you know, changing our our wicked ways. A couple of days ago we debuted a bunch of new material in unplugged form.

But for fans of the band who also like our harder side, rest assured that there is a good range of harder rock and metal compositions. that will be featured on the forthcoming album still to be titled Seneca is supported this year by the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a national resource center for the study of East Asia. The Seneca podcast will remain free, but if you work for an organization that believes in what I'm doing with the podcast, please do consider lending your support. You can get me as always at cinecapod at gmail.com. A note of thanks too to all the folks who subscribed to the podcast after the last episode with Adam Tues, which made, you know, something of a splash for those who've been enjoying the show, which I've now been hosting for over fifteen years.

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