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Gourmets in the land of famine : the culture and politics of rice in modern Canton /
Sheds new light on the local history of the city & illuminates how China's struggle with food shortages in the early 20th century unfolded.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- South of the mountains : the political economy of the Pearl River Delta
- The order of rice in Canton : the formation of the Cantonese provisioning networks and consumer satisfaction
- Tightening the shenggang (Canton-Hong Kong) ties : rice relief and the development of transnational rice business
- Politicizing the enterprise : the nationalist revolution and the Cantonese rice business
- Taste in numbers : science and the Chinese food problem
- Taxes and strikes : the foreign rice tax and social repercussions
- Inventing the "national rice" : the national goods movement and the issue of rice quality
- Granary of the empire, laboratory of the nation : the Canton-Hankow railway and the Hunan rice sales project in Canton
- Provincial politics of the national rice : the Canton famine (1936-1937) and the South China Rice Trading Corporation.