Ying Chang Compestine Books
The Real Story of Stone Soup
By Howard Ensign Evans, Ying Chang Compestine
When a crew of Chinese fishermen forget to bring cooking utensils with them, they find creative ways to make do with what they have and what they can find.
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Growing Up under a Red Flag
By Xinmei Liu, Ying Chang Compestine
A stirring and magnificently illustrated picture-book memoir of the author’s childhood during the Chinese Cultural RevolutionYing Chang Compestine was a young girl in 1966 when Mao launched h...
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The runaway rice cake
After chasing the special rice cake, Nian Gao, that their mother has made to celebrate the Chinese New Year, three poor brothers share it with an elderly woman and have their generosity richly rewa...
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Revolution is not a dinner party
Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances dee...
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A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts
Presents and eight-course banquet of ghost stories centering around Chinese cooking and culture. Each story is followed by a recipe and historical notes.
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Boy dumplings
When a hungry ghost threatens to gobble up a plump little boy, the boy tricks the ghost by convincing him to prepare an elaborate recipe first.
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