Publication subTitle :Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China
Publication series :Body, Commodity, Text
Author: Judith Farquhar
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication year: 2002
E-ISBN: 9780822383451
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780822329213
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780822329060
Subject: K892.25 diet, living
Language: ENG
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Description
From eating well in improving economic times to memories of the late 1950s famine, from the flavors of traditional Chinese medicine to modernity’s private sexual passions, this book argues that embodiment in all its forms must be invented and sustained in public reflections about personal and national life. As much at home in science studies and social theory as in the details of life in Beijing, this account uses anthropology, cultural studies, and literary criticism to read contemporary Chinese life in a materialist and reflexive mode. For both Maoist and market reform periods, this is a story of high culture in appetites, desire in collective life, and politics in the body and its dispositions.