Mouth That Begs
«“A very provocative view of the way modern Chinese practice, imagine, and politicize food culture and alimentary discourse. Instead of paying only lip service to materiality, Yue truly grapples with the material aspect of Chinese modernity.”—David Wang, author of Fictional Realism in Modern China: Mao Dun, Lao She, Shen Congwen»
This book examines the twentieth-century Chinese political experience as it is represented literature through hunger, cooking, eating, and cannibalising. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Duke University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 464
- ISBN
- 9780822323419
- Utgivelsesår
- 1999
Anmeldelser
«“A very provocative view of the way modern Chinese practice, imagine, and politicize food culture and alimentary discourse. Instead of paying only lip service to materiality, Yue truly grapples with the material aspect of Chinese modernity.”—David Wang, author of Fictional Realism in Modern China: Mao Dun, Lao She, Shen Congwen»
«“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»