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The mouth that begs : hunger, cannibalism, and the politics of eating in modern China

Author: Gang Yue
Publisher: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999.
Series: Post-contemporary interventions.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Yue, Gang, 1955-
Mouth that begs.
Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999
(OCoLC)607349915
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Gang Yue
ISBN: 0822323087 9780822323082 0822323419 9780822323419
OCLC Number: 40311491
Description: viii, 447 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Discoursing Food: Some Notes toward a Semiotic of Eating in Ancient China --
The Social Embodiment of Modernity --
Lu Xun and Cannibalism --
Shen Congwen's "Modest Proposal" --
Writing Hunger: From Mao to the Dao --
Hunger Revolution and Revolutionary Hunger --
Postrevolutionary Leftovers: Zhang Xianliang and Ah Cheng --
The Return (of) Cannibalism after Tiananmen, or Red Monument in a Latrine Pit --
Monument Revisited: Zheng Yi and Liu Zhenyun --
From Cannibalism to Carnivorism: Mo Yan's Liquorland --
Sampling of Variety: Gender and Cross-Cultural Perspectives --
Embodied Spaces of Home: Xiao Hong, Wang Anyi, and Li Ang --
Blending Chinese in America: Maxine Hong Kingston, Jade Snow Wong, and Amy Tan.
Series Title: Post-contemporary interventions.
Responsibility: Gang Yue.

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