Description: About this Item The item is a book Paperback The Author Name is Ellen Oxfeld The Title is Bitter and Sweet : Food, Meaning, and Modernity in Rural China : 63 Condition New Other Comments Pages Count - 280. Category - Social Science Product Description - Less than a half century ago, China experienced a cataclysmic famine, which was particularly devastating in the countryside. As a result, older people in rural areas have experienced in their lifetimes both extreme deprivation and relative abundance of food. Young people, on the other hand, have a different relationship to food. Many young rural Chinese are migrating to rapidly industrializing cities for work, leaving behind backbreaking labor but also a connection to food through 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 and that describe increasing dislocation and individualism and a lack of moral centeredness. By using food as a lens, she shows a more complex picture, where connectedness and sense of place continue to play an important role, even in the context of rapid change. We Use Stock Images Because we have over 2 million items for sale we have to use stock images, this listing does not include the actual image of the item for sale. The purchase of this specific item is made with the understanding that the image shown in this listing is a stock image and not the actual item for sale. For example: some of our stock images include stickers, labels, price tags, hyper stickers, obi's, promotional messages, signatures and or writing which may not be available in the actual item. When possible we will add details of the items we are selling to help buyers know what is included in the item for sale. The details  are provided automatically  from our central master database and can sometimes be wrong. Books are released in many editions and variations, such as standard edition, re-issue, not for sale, promotional, special edition, limited edition, and many other editions and versions.  The Book you receive could be any of these editions or variations. If you are looking for a specific edition or version please contact us to verify what we are selling.   Gift IdeasThis is a  great Christmas gift idea.   Hours of ServiceWe have many warehouses,  some of the warehouses process orders seven days a week, but the Administration Support Staff are located at a head office location, outside of the warehouses, and typically work only Monday to Friday. Location ID 9000z iHaveit SKU ID 167313496
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Brand: California Studies in Food and Culture
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Title: Bitter and Sweet Food Meaning and Modernity in Rural China
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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, Asia / China, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), Sociology / Urban
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2017
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Genre: Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Ellen Oxfeld
Item Width: 6 in
Book Series: California Studies in Food and Culture Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback