Baijiu: The Essential Guide to Chinese Spirits

The first few months of living in China can be regarded as a series of rites of passage, most of which, once overcome, are viewed as proud markers of one's increasing integration into Chinese culture. Those who have not yet faced down the more particular aspects of life in the Middle Kingdom ("You've really never eaten locusts/snake/chicken feet/Chongqing hot pot?" etc.) tend to be viewed as dilettantes and treated correspondingly.