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The mouth that begs : hunger, cannibalism, and the politics of eating in modern China
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Title
The mouth that begs : hunger, cannibalism, and the politics of eating in modern China / Gang Yue.
ISBN
9780822398516
0822398516
0822323087 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822323082 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822323419 (paper : alk. paper)
9780822323419 (paper : alk. paper)
Publication
Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999.
Physical Description
1 online resource (viii, 447 pages)
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Print version: Yue, Gang, 1955- Mouth that begs. Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999
Format
Books / Online
Language
English; Chinese
Added to Catalog
August 24, 2018
Series
Post-contemporary interventions
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [419]-433) and index.
Contents
Discoursing Food: Some Notes toward a Semiotic of Eating in Ancient China
The Social Embodiment of Modernity
Lu Xun and Cannibalism
Shen Congwen's "Modest Proposal"
Writing Hunger: From Mao to the Dao
Hunger Revolution and Revolutionary Hunger
Postrevolutionary Leftovers: Zhang Xianliang and Ah Cheng
The Return (of) Cannibalism after Tiananmen, or Red Monument in a Latrine Pit
Monument Revisited: Zheng Yi and Liu Zhenyun
From Cannibalism to Carnivorism: Mo Yan's Liquorland
Sampling of Variety: Gender and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Embodied Spaces of Home: Xiao Hong, Wang Anyi, and Li Ang
Blending Chinese in America: Maxine Hong Kingston, Jade Snow Wong, and Amy Tan.
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