Appetites : Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China /

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Judith Farquhar's innovative study of medicine and popular culture in modern China reveals the thoroughly political and historical character of pleasure. Ranging over a variety of cultural terrains--fiction, medical texts, film and television, journalism, and observations of clinics and urban d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Farquhar, Judith (Autor)
Otros Autores: Appadurai, Arjun (Editor ), Comaroff, John L. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2002]
Colección:Body, Commodity, Text : 21
Temas:
Ethnology.
Food habits > China.
Food habits.
Human body > Social aspects > China.
Medicine > China.
Medicine, Chinese.
Sex customs > China.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Eating: a politics of the senses
  • Preamble to Part I, Lei Feng, Tireless Servant of the People
  • 1. Medicinal Meals
  • 2. A Feast for the Mind
  • 3. Excess and Deficiency
  • Part II. Desiring: an ethics of embodiment
  • Preamble to Part II, Du Wanxiang, The Rosy Glow of the Good Communist
  • 4. Writing the Self: The Romance of the Personal
  • 5. Sexual Science: The Representation of Behavior
  • 6. Ars Erotica
  • Conclusion, Hailing Historical Bodies
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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