Gang Yue

The Mouth That Begs

Hunger, Cannibalism, and the Politics of Eating in Modern China

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Produktbeschreibung

"Eating is certainly one of the great cultural metaphors in China, past and present. "The Mouth That Begs" is magnificent--sophisticated in writing and original in approach and interpretation. A most brilliant work indeed."--Leo Ou-fan Lee, Harvard University

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 46mm
• Gewicht: 885g
• ISBN-13: 9780822323082
• ISBN-10: 0822323087
• Artikelnr.: 42992757

Autorenporträt

Gang Yue is Assistant Professor of Chinese at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
I. The Social Embodiment of Modernity 61
II. Writing Hunger: From Mao to the Dao 145
III. The Return (of) Cannibalism after Tianamen, or Red Monument in a
Latrine Pit 222
IV. Sampling of Variety: Gender and Cross-Cultural Perspectives 289
Conclusion 372
Notes 383
Glossary 407
Bibliography 419
Index 435