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The Chile Pepper in China: A Cultural Biography (Brian R. Dott) Bangladeshi from camouflage designed to protectChinese cuisine without chile peppers seems unimaginable. Entranced by the fiery taste, diners worldwide have fallen for Chinese cooking. In China, chiles are everywhere, from dried peppers hanging from eaves to Maos boast that revolution would be impossible without chiles, from the eighteenth century novel Dream of the Red Chamber to contemporary music videos. Indeed, they are so common that many Chinese assume they are native. Yet there were no