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Apr 24, 2024 | newyorker.com | Jiayang Fan

When one bag was full, I began to fill another with a sampling of monk fruit, sour black plum, dried bayberries, nine-spiced tangerine peels, fig strips, licorice wampees, and black-vinegar ginger. It should be said that this was also how my mother had shopped, decades earlier, when she came to Flushing: chaotically frenzied, a doomsday devotee stockpiling for her bunker. “Won’t some shiitake mushrooms interest you?” She began trailing after me.

Apr 4, 2024 | newyorker.com | Jiayang Fan

Even if you have trouble spotting Okiboru House of Udon’s nondescript shopfront, chances are you won’t miss the line winding halfway down the restaurant’s East Village block. Okiboru doesn’t take reservations or permit takeout—a prudent move, considering its cozy quarters (eighteen slender counter seats) and the fact that hype is a potent currency among its most fervent publicists, foodie TikTokers who know a ribbon of hyper-telegenic noodle when they see one.

Feb 5, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Zhiming Chen |Xingxing Zhang |Jiayang Fan |Jianxue Zhai

INTRODUCTION Esophageal cancer (EC) is a malignancy of the digestive system that exhibits high incidence and mortality rates. In 2020, EC was ranked as the seventh most prevalent cancer (604 000 new cases, 3.1%) and the sixth leading cause of cancer-related death (544 000 deaths, 5.5%) worldwide.1 EC is classified into two histopathological types; esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) and esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC).

Oct 5, 2023 | newyorker.com | Jiayang Fan

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyIn a way, Justine’s—named for its proprietor, the daughter of the famous Upper East Side wine importer Neal Rosenthal—harks to a different era, when the economy was a little more flush and overt extravagance a touch less gauche. But, then again, in 2023 even an upscale bistro where bottles average around a hundred and fifty dollars feels, well, very 2023.

Sep 29, 2023 | nytimes.com | Jiayang Fan

SPARKS: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future, by Ian Johnson By now, it is almost clichéd to compare political misrule to the dystopia that Orwell conjured through the story of the low-ranking functionary Winston Smith in “1984,” but so many aspects of the novel have come true in today’s China — from mass surveillance to fury-inciting demagogy to President Xi Jinping’s declaration that the Communist Party’s rule is “the conclusion of history” — that it may appear to...