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Bitter and sweet : = food, meaning, and modernity in rural China /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Bitter and sweet :/ Ellen Oxfeld
Reminder of title:	food, meaning, and modernity in rural China /
Author:	Oxfeld, Ellen,
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 256 pages)
Subject:	Food supply - China -
Online resource:	http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/UCPB0001645.html
ISBN:	9780520966741$q(electronic book)

Bitter and sweet : = food, meaning, and modernity in rural China /
Oxfeld, Ellen,1953-

Bitter and sweet :food, meaning, and modernity in rural China /Ellen Oxfeld - 1 online resource (xv, 256 pages) - California studies in food and culture ;63. - California studies in food and culture ;63.

Includes bibliographical references and index

The value of food in rural China -- Labor -- Memory -- Exchange -- Morality -- Conviviality

"Less than a half century ago, China experienced a cataclysmic famine, which was particularly devastating in the countryside. For older people in rural areas, food now symbolizes everything from misery and extreme want to relative abundance. Young people, on the other hand, have a different relationship to food. Many young rural Chinese are migrating to rapidly industrializing cities for work, happy to leave behind the backbreaking labor associated with peasant 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, work that describes increasing dislocation and individualism and a lack of moral centeredness

ISBN: 9780520966741$q(electronic book)

LCCN: 2016050441Subjects--Topical Terms:

1175198
Food supply
--ChinaIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

761329
Electronic books

LC Class. No.: HD9016.C62 / O94 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 338.1/951091734

Bitter and sweet : = food, meaning, and modernity in rural China /
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