The Art of Interdependence

A review of Gish Jen’s Tiger Writing by Stefanie Krasnow published in Abusters #109

The Yíxīng clay of southern China is famous, Gish Jen writes in Tiger Writing, “not because it does not absorb odors, the distinction of so much Western cookware, but rather because it will absorb the flavor of every pot of tea made in it; so that over time, the many pots of the past come to lend an inimitable depth to what is steeped in it today.”

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