By Ellen Oxfeld
ISBN-10: 0520293517
ISBN-13: 9780520293519
ISBN-10: 0520293525
ISBN-13: 9780520293526
Bitter and candy examines the function of nutrition in a single rural chinese language group because it has formed daily lives over the process a number of tumultuous a long time. In her wonderful ethnographic debts, Ellen Oxfeld compels us to reexamine a number of the dominant frameworks that experience permeated contemporary scholarship on modern China and that describe expanding dislocation and individualism and an absence of ethical centeredness. through the use of meals as a lens, she indicates a extra advanced photo, the place connectedness and experience of position proceed to play an incredible function, even within the context of quick change.
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Lower than a part century in the past, China skilled a cataclysmic famine, which used to be fairly devastating within the geographical region. consequently, older humans in rural parts have skilled of their lifetimes either severe deprivation and relative abundance of nutrients. kids, nevertheless, have a special dating to nutrients.
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