Introduction

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