The Mouth That Begs : Hunger, Cannibalism, and the Politics of Eating in Modern China /

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The Chinese ideogram chi is far richer in connotation than the equivalent English verb "to eat." Chi can also be read as "the mouth that begs for food and words." A concept manifest in the twentieth-century Chinese political reality of revolution and massacre, chi suggests a narr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yue, Gang, 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Chino
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Faim > Dans la litterature.
Litterature americaine > Auteurs d'origine asiatique > Histoire et critique.
Science politique > Dans la litterature.
Litterature chinoise > Themes, motifs.
Litterature chinoise > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Levensmiddelen.
Hunger
Literatur
Geschichte
Kannibalismus
Politics in literature.
Hunger in literature.
Chinese literature.
Chinese Americans in literature.
American literature > Chinese American authors.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > General.
Americains d'origine chinoise dans la litterature.
Americains d'origine chinoise > Vie intellectuelle.
Litterature americaine > Auteurs americains d'origine chinoise > Histoire et critique.
Faim dans la litterature.
Chinese Americans > Intellectual life.
American literature > Chinese American authors > History and criticism.
Chinese literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Chinesisch.
China
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Discoursing Food: Some Notes toward a Semiotic of Eating in Ancient China
  • The Social Embodiment of Modernity
  • Lu Xun and Cannibalism
  • Shen Congwen's "Modest Proposal"
  • Writing Hunger: From Mao to the Dao
  • Hunger Revolution and Revolutionary Hunger
  • Postrevolutionary Leftovers: Zhang Xianliang and Ah Cheng
  • The Return (of) Cannibalism after Tiananmen, or Red Monument in a Latrine Pit
  • Monument Revisited: Zheng Yi and Liu Zhenyun
  • From Cannibalism to Carnivorism: Mo Yan's Liquorland
  • Sampling of Variety: Gender and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
  • Embodied Spaces of Home: Xiao Hong, Wang Anyi, and Li Ang
  • Blending Chinese in America: Maxine Hong Kingston, Jade Snow Wong, and Amy Tan.

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