Food and War in Mid-Twentieth-Century East Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Cwiertka, Katarzyna J.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

War has been both an agent of destruction and a catalyst for innovation. These two, at first sight contradictory, yet mutually constitutive outcomes of war-waging are particularly pronounced in twentieth-century Asia. The disarray of war may halt economic activities and render many aspects of life insignificant but the need for food cannot be ignored and the social action that it requires continues in all circumstances. This book documents the effects of war on the lives of ordinary people through the investigation of a variety of connections that developed between war-waging and the production, distribution, preparation and consumption of food throughout Asia since the 1930s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317134435
• Artikelnr.: 49366891

Autorenporträt

Katarzyna J. Cwiertka is Chair and Professor of Modern Japan Studies at Leiden University, the Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction, Katarzyna J. Cwiertka; Part I Supplying
Nutrition: From riots to relief: rice, local government and charities in
occupied Central China, Toby Lincoln; Food rationing and the black market
in wartime Korea, Kyoung-Hee Park; A dearth of animal protein: reforming
nutrition in occupied Japan (1945-1952), Christopher Aldous; From feeding
the army to nourishing the people: the impact of wartime mobilization and
institutions on grain supply in post-1949 Su'nan and Taiwan, Julia C.
Strauss; Feeding the UN troops in the Korean War (1950-1953), Katarzyna J.
Cwiertka. Part II The Complexity of Eating: An insatiable parasite: eating
and drinking in WWII armies of the Asia-Pacific theatre (1937-1945), Aaron
William Moore; The 'food problem' of evacuated children in wartime Japan,
1944-1945, Samuel Hideo Yamashita; A 'great East Asian meal' in
post-colonial Seoul, Autumn 1945, Lori Watt; Learning about radioactive
contamination of food: lessons from Hiroshima and US nuclear testing in the
Marshall Islands, Nancy J. Pollock; Index.