Bitter and Sweet : Food, Meaning, and Modernity in Rural China /

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Less than a half century ago, China experienced a cataclysmic famine, which was particularly devastating in the countryside. As a result, older people in rural areas have experienced in their lifetimes both extreme deprivation and relative abundance of food. Young people, on the other hand, have a d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Oxfeld, Ellen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]
Colección:California Studies in Food and Culture ; 63
Temas:
Agriculture - Economic aspects - China - History - 21st century.
Agriculture > Economic aspects > China > History > 21st century.
Food consumption > China.
Food supply > China.
Rural families > China.
Urbanization > China.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
academic.
china.
chinese country.
chinese history.
chinese.
country.
countryside.
eastern world.
elderly.
ethnographic.
ethnography.
famine.
food scarcity.
food shortage.
growing old.
history of china.
hunger.
identity.
individualism.
industrial.
industrialization.
migration.
morals.
place.
relationship to food.
relationship with food.
rural china.
rural.
scholarly.
scholarship.
world history.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Note on the Text
  • 1. The Value of Food in Rural China
  • 2. Labor
  • 3. Memory
  • 4. Exchange
  • 5. Morality
  • 6. Conviviality
  • Conclusion: Stitching the World Together
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index

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