Description: Bitter and Sweet : Food, Meaning, and Modernity in Rural China, Paperback by Oxfeld, Ellen, ISBN 0520293525, ISBN-13 9780520293526, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US "Less than a half century ago, China experienced a cataclysmic famine, which was particularly devastating in the countryside. For older people in rural areas, food now symbolizes everything from misery and extreme want to relative abundance. Young people, on the other hand, have a different relationship to food. Many young rural Chinese are migrating to rapidly industrializing cities for work, happy to leave behind the backbreaking labor associated with peasant agriculture. Bitter and Sweet examines the role of food in one rural Chinese community, as it has shaped everyday lives over the course of several tumultuous decades. In her superb ethnographic accounts, Ellen Oxfeld compels us to reexamine some of the dominant frameworks that have permeated recent scholarship on contemporary China, work that describes increasing dislocation and individualism and a lack of moral centeredness. By using food as our lens, we see a more complex picture, one in which connectedness and sense of place continue to play animportant role, even in the context of rapid change."--Provided by publisher.
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Book Title: Bitter and Sweet : Food, Meaning, and Modernity in Rural China
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Topic: Industries / Agribusiness, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), Asia / China, Sociology / Urban
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2017
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Author: Ellen Oxfeld
Item Length: 0.9 in
Item Width: 0.6 in
Book Series: California Studies in Food and Culture Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
