Feeding China's Little Emperors - Food, Children, and Social Change

"Jun Jing's edited volume is an important step forward on a controversial subject--only children in China's one-child families--that has often generated more heat than light. . . . There are no weak chapters. . . . [James L.] Watson is correct in concluding that the book may be unique because it attempts to track a profound historical transformation in social attitudes toward children during the early stages of that transformation."--Pacific Affairs
"A rich description of cultural and dietary change in action, pointing to possibilities in research as well as the future of health studies in China."--Nutritional Anthropology

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About the author

Jun Jing is Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology at the City University of New York. He is the author of The Temple of Memories: History, Power, and Morality in a Chinese Village (Stanford, 1996).

Summary

This book focuses on how the transformation of the food habits of Chinese children-involving snack foods, soft drinks, and fast foods from such Western outlets as McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken-has changed the intimate relationship of childhood, parenthood, and family life.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jun Jing (Editor), Jing Jun (Editor)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2000
• EAN: 9780804731348
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-3134-8
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 215 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 354 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education