This is the third and last essay in China Heritage that marks the Dingyou Year of the Rooster of 2017 丁酉雞年 by focussing on the Rooster/Chicken 雞 jī. The first two essays, On Reading and On Seeing, considered the subject from the perspectives of classical literature, modern anecdote and through the work of Huang Yongyu. Below we pursue the Rooster from a … Continue reading The Year of the Rooster, On Eating, Injecting, Imbibing & Speaking