Appetites - Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China

"Judith Farquhar has done an exquisite job of clarifying why it makes sense to write a text that ranges across Chinese medicine, food, and sex, and how they are intimately linked through the specificities of appetites, desires, and anxieties about the body. Farquhar beautifully delineates how embodiment is historically and politically produced, how it forms the nexus of numerous enactments, some allegorical, some very concrete in terms of the body's well being, but all linked to post-socialist Chinese life."--Lisa Rofel, University of California, Santa Cruz

List of contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Part I. Eating: A Politics of the Senses

Preamble to Part I / Lei Feng, Tireless Servant of the People 37

1. Medicinal Meals 47

2. A Feast for the Mind 79

3. Excess and Deficiency 121

Part II. Desiring: An Ethics of Embodiment

Preamble to Part II / Du Wanxiang, The Rosy Glow of the Good Communist 167

4. Writing the Self: The Romance of the Personal 175

5. Sexual Science: The Representation of Behavior 211

6. Ars Erotica 243

Conclusion / Hailing Historical Bodies 285

Notes 293

References 323

Index 337

About the author

Judith Farquhar is Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Knowing Practice: The Clinical Encounter of Chinese Medicine.

Product details

• Authors: Farquhar, Judith Farquhar
• Assisted by: Arjun Appadurai (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.04.2002
• EAN: 9780822329213
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2921-3
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 232 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 576 g
• Series: Body, Commodity, Text; Body, Commodity, Text: Studies; Body, Commodity, Text; Body, Commodity, Text: Studies
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore