Buwei Yang Chao

Later she went to an all-girls Roman Catholic school in Shanghai, and later went to Japan to attend the Tokyo Women's Medical College.

Hu's account of this simple ceremony in the next day's newspapers described the couple as a model of modern marriage for China's New Culture generation.

How to Cook and Eat in Chinese was written when Buwei and Yuen Ren lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts during World War II.

Yuen Ren was conducting language training for the US Army and Buwei would prepare meals for the instructors using local ingredients.

Some came from her travels with her husband as he collected dialect data from across China and often they lived with the subjects of Yuen Ren's language research.

[7] Jason Epstein of The New York Times, who later met the couple as publisher of a reprint of the book, claims that as the author could not speak or write much English, it must have been her husband who wrote in her name.