Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change

357 The quote from the French foreign minister (“two governments, two parliaments, and complete confusion”) comes from Nathalie Guibert, Yves-Michel Riols, and Hélène Sallon, “Libya’s Tripoli and Tobruk dilemma no nearer to resolution,” Guardian, January 27, 2015. Responses to proposals for a “unity government” are discussed in Suliman Ali Zway and Carlotta Gall, “Libyan factions reject unity government plan,” New York Times, October 20, 2015. Khalifa Haftar’s threats to form yet another government were reported in Mary Fitzgerald, “Libyan renegade general Khalifa Haftar claims he is winning his war,” Guardian, June 24, 2014.

357 Saif Qaddafi’s troubling words (“There will be civil war in Libya . . .”) are recorded in Lindsey Hilsum, “Saif al-Islam Gaddafi: The prophet of his own doom,” Guardian, August 5, 2015.

357 Saif Qaddafi describes the amputation of his fingers by his captors in Fred Abrahams, “In his first interview, Saif al-Islam says he has not been given access to a lawyer,” Daily Beast, December 30, 2012.

357 The conviction and sentencing of Saif Qaddafi is reported in Chris Stephen, “Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam sentenced to death by court in Libya,” Guardian, July 28, 2015; and Hilsum, op. cit.

357 The chant of the August 2015 pro-Qaddafi demonstrators (“Zintan, Zintan, free Saif al-Islam”) was described in Hilsum, ibid.

All the Food in China

370 Food-oriented television programming in China is described in Li Xiaoyu, “A bite of food culture,” BJ Review, July 2, 2015.

370 Statistics on the proportion of Chinese who regularly share photos of their meals online rely on Angela Xu, “China’s digital powered foodie revolution,” Lab Brand, January 6, 2015.

370 Efforts to persuade UNESCO to include Chinese cuisine on its list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity are described in Li, op. cit.

370 The growing popularity of organic food in China is the subject of Cai Muyuan, “Eat green, think greener,” China Daily Europe, June 5, 2015.

370 The apparent health benefits of spicy food are documented in Jun Lv et al., “Consumption of spicy foods and total and cause specific mortality: Population based cohort study,” British Medical Journal 351 (August 4, 2015).

370 Shanghai’s dominance in Asian restaurant ratings is reported in Jessica Rapp, “Locavores, health food, and celebrity chefs: The hottest trends in Shanghai’s dining scene,” Jing Daily, August 24, 2015.

370 The widespread contamination of Chinese soil is discussed in British Broadcasting Corporation, “Report: One fifth of China’s soil contaminated,” BBC News, April 18, 2014.

370 Sources on food adulteration in China include Yanzhong Huang, “The 2008 milk scandal revisited,” Forbes, July 16, 2014; Peter Foster, “Top 10 Chinese food scandals,” Telegraph, April 27, 2011; Associated Press, “Vinegar contaminated with antifreeze kills Chinese Muslims at Ramadan meal,” Guardian, August 22, 2011; Patrick Boehler, “Bad eggs: Another fake-food scandal rocks China,” Time, November 6, 2012; Patrick Boehler, “Police seize chicken feet in storage since 1967, smuggled from Vietnam,” South China Morning Post, July 8, 2013; British Broadcasting Corporation, “Chinese police arrest 110 for selling ‘contaminated pork,’ ” BBC News, January 12, 2015; and Elizabeth Barber, “ ‘Gutter oil’ scandal raises food-safety fears once again in greater China,” Time, September 8, 2014.

370 Chinese skepticism regarding the “organic” label is noted in Dominique Patton, “Cashing in on health scares, China online food sales boom,” Reuters, August 11, 2013.

370 The popularity of imported food, particularly fruit, is the subject of Rebecca Kanthor, “In China, imported fruit is the must-have luxury item for the New Year,” The World, Public Radio International, February 20, 2015; and Nan Zhong, “China has a healthy appetite for food imports,” China Daily, March 2, 2015.

371 The secretive cultivation of organic food for the Chinese political elite is described in Barbara Demick, “In China, what you eat tells who you are,” Los Angeles Times, September 16, 2011.

371 For more information on the increasing popularity of alternatives to rice in the Chinese diet, see Te-Ping Chen, “In latest mash-up, China puts spotlight on spuds,” Wall Street Journal, August 17, 2015.

371 Recent increases in obesity and diabetes in China are discussed in Laurie Burkitt, “Selling health food to China,” Wall Street Journal, December 13, 2010; and Lily Kuo, “By 2015, China will be the world’s largest consumer of processed food,” Quartz, September 23, 2013.

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