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Title: Bitter and Sweet
Condition: New
Subtitle: Food, Meaning, and Modernity in Rural China
Author: Ellen Oxfeld
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0520293525
EAN: 9780520293526
ISBN: 9780520293526
Publisher: University of California Press
Genre: Technology & Engineering
Topic: Social Sciences, Science Nature & Math, Society & Culture
Release Date: 05/23/2017
Description: Less than a half century ago, China experienced a cataclysmic famine, which was particularly devastating in the countryside. As a result, older people in rural areas have experienced in their lifetimes both extreme deprivation and relative abundance of food. Young people, on the other hand, have a different relationship to food. Many young rural Chinese are migrating to rapidly industrializing cities for work, leaving behind backbreaking labor but also a connection to food through agriculture. Bitter and Sweet examines the role of food in one rural Chinese community as it has shaped everyday lives over the course of several tumultuous decades. In her superb ethnographic accounts, Ellen Oxfeld compels us to reexamine some of the dominant frameworks that have permeated recent scholarship on contemporary China and that describe increasing dislocation and individualism and a lack of moral centeredness. By using food as a lens, she shows a more complex picture, where connectedness and sense of place continue to play an important role, even in the context of rapid change.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Width: 15mm
Item Weight: 408g
Series: California Studies in Food and Culture
Release Year: 2017

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