The Mouth That Begs - Hunger, Cannibalism, and the Politics of Eating in Modern China

"Eating is certainly one of the great cultural metaphors in China, past and present. "The Mouth That Begs" is magnificent--sophisticated in writing and original in approach and interpretation. A most brilliant work indeed."--Leo Ou-fan Lee, Harvard University

Sommario

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

I. The Social Embodiment of Modernity 61

II. Writing Hunger: From Mao to the Dao 145

III. The Return (of) Cannibalism after Tianamen, or Red Monument in a Latrine Pit 222

IV. Sampling of Variety: Gender and Cross-Cultural Perspectives 289

Conclusion 372

Notes 383

Glossary 407

Bibliography 419

Index 435

Info autore

Gang Yue is Assistant Professor of Chinese at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Riassunto

The Chinese ideogram Chi is far richer in connotation than the equivalent English verb "to eat." Chi can also be read as "the mouth that begs for food and words." This book examines the twentieth-century Chinese political experience as it is represented literature through hunger, cooking, eating, and cannibalising.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Gang Yue, Yue, Gang Yue
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 02.07.1999
• EAN: 9780822323082
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2308-2
• Pagine: 464
• Peso: 948 g
• Serie: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Altre lingue / altre letterature