, Columnist
McNuggetization Is Coming for the Chinese Diet
China is making the switch from beef and pork to chicken.
Photographer: Qilai Shen/BloombergThe story of the modern Chinese diet is one of scarcity, boom and bust.
Many of the older generation still have memories of desperate penury under Mao Zedong, when history’s greatest famine left tens of millions dead, and tens of millions more surviving on tree bark, leaves and vermin.