{"id":303,"date":"2008-04-05T19:30:53","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T00:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?p=303"},"modified":"2012-02-25T19:59:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T00:59:03","slug":"jennifer-8-lee-bss-196","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/jennifer-8-lee-bss-196\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer 8. Lee (BSS #196)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer 8. Lee is the author of <i>The Fortune Cookie Chronicles<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/jennifer8lee.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"jennifer8lee\" align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8610\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-303-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo196.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo196.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo196.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo196.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=303-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo196.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo196.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 48:54 &#8212; 44.8MB)<\/p>\n<p><b>Condition of Mr. Segundo:<\/b> Indignant towards the ungrateful.<\/p>\n<p><b>Author:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/\">Jennifer 8. Lee<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Subjects Discussed:<\/b> Comparisons between Chinese restaurants and open source software, General Tso&#8217;s chicken, fortune cookies and <i>Analects<\/i>, how frequently fortune cookie companies rotate fortunes, melon patches, making a living as a fortune cookie writer, Edward Louie, attempting to discover the fortune cookie&#8217;s origins in a non-academic manner, the next chop suey, broccoli, Lee&#8217;s assumptions about race and class, boys playing with Barbies, blowing a lot of money to find the greatest Chinese restaurant, the underground network of Chinese laborers underneath Manhattan Bridge, illegal restaurant workers, smuggling, takeout menus, pizza vs. Chinese food, and a sad tale concerning a delivery man.<\/p>\n<p><b>EXCERPT FROM SHOW:<\/b> <\/p>\n<p><b>Lee:<\/b>  As I went and discovered old Chinese cookie maxims, like booklets of these idioms or whatever, if you&#8217;re really educated in China, you were forced to memorize all these pithy maxims or whatever.  So when you go and you find these maxims, you basically find out, a lot of it doesn&#8217;t make sense to an American audience, right?  Because let&#8217;s think about it.  China.  Old traditions.  Very rural.  So a lot of their wisdom has to do with agriculture.  So for example, there&#8217;s a saying that&#8217;s &#8212; my mom shared this with me:  DO NOT BEND DOWN AND TIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU&#8217;RE IN A MELON PATCH.  Right.  So if you say that to an American, it doesn&#8217;t really make all that much sense.<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b>  It makes sense to me.<\/p>\n<p><b>Lee:<\/b> It does?<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b>  Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><b>Lee:<\/b> It does make sense?  What does it say to you?<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b>  Well, the melon patch is symptomatic of some very major paradigm in my head that, if I were to tell you, I would start to tear up.  It&#8217;s a very emotional metaphor for me.<\/p>\n<p><b>Lee:<\/b> Is it? (<i>laughs<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> And I&#8217;m kind of blushing now just thinking about my own personal melon patch.  But now I know how to go about the rest of the day from this piece of wisdom.<\/p>\n<p><b>Lee:<\/b> So what this means to most Chinese people&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> Oh, I&#8217;m sorry.  <\/p>\n<p><b>Lee:<\/b> (<i>laughs<\/i>) <\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> I may be just a bit idiosyncratic.  Go for it.<\/p>\n<p><b>Lee:<\/b> It means: Don&#8217;t do anything if it looks suspicious, even thought it&#8217;s not.  But Americans don&#8217;t grow melons and they&#8217;re not depending on melon patches.<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> Well, speak for yourself.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8611\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-303-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo196.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo196.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo196.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo196.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=303-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo196.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo196.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 48:54 &#8212; 44.8MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer 8. 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