Principal Investigator Tong Chen
Project Website http://polyglot.mit.edu/html/tianjin/project.html
This project (which is currently under development) is meant to supplement and enrich students regular textbook material. The project consists of short interviews with restaurant owners and local residents about their experiences during some of the social and political upheavals that characterize recent Chinese history and account for so many present attitudes. In addition there are interviews with restaurant patrons and cooks about Chinese food and local customs and geography.