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1. Discoursing Food

Some Notes toward a Semiotic of Eating in Ancient China
  • Gang Yue
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The Mouth That Begs
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© 2020 Duke University Press, Durham, USA

© 2020 Duke University Press, Durham, USA

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Introduction 1
  5. 1. Discoursing Food 30
  6. I The Social Embodiment of Modernity
  7. Introduction 61
  8. 2. Lu Xun and Cannibalism 67
  9. 3. Shen Congwen's "Modest Proposal" 101
  10. II Writing Hunger: From Mao to the Dao
  11. Introduction 145
  12. 4. Hungry Revolution and Revolutionary Hunger 150
  13. 5. Postrevolutionary leftovers 184
  14. III The Return (of) Cannibalism after Tiananmen, or Red Monument in a Latrine Pit
  15. Introduction 223
  16. 6. Monument Revisited 228
  17. 7. From Cannibalism to Carnivorism 262
  18. IV Sampling of Variety: Ciender and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
  19. Introduction 289
  20. 8. Embodied Spaces of Home 293
  21. 9. Blending Chinese in America 331
  22. Conclusion 372
  23. Notes 383
  24. Glossary 407
  25. Bibliography 419
  26. Index 435
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822398516-003

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Introduction 1
  5. 1. Discoursing Food 30
  6. I The Social Embodiment of Modernity
  7. Introduction 61
  8. 2. Lu Xun and Cannibalism 67
  9. 3. Shen Congwen's "Modest Proposal" 101
  10. II Writing Hunger: From Mao to the Dao
  11. Introduction 145
  12. 4. Hungry Revolution and Revolutionary Hunger 150
  13. 5. Postrevolutionary leftovers 184
  14. III The Return (of) Cannibalism after Tiananmen, or Red Monument in a Latrine Pit
  15. Introduction 223
  16. 6. Monument Revisited 228
  17. 7. From Cannibalism to Carnivorism 262
  18. IV Sampling of Variety: Ciender and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
  19. Introduction 289
  20. 8. Embodied Spaces of Home 293
  21. 9. Blending Chinese in America 331
  22. Conclusion 372
  23. Notes 383
  24. Glossary 407
  25. Bibliography 419
  26. Index 435
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