Bitter and Sweet: Food, Meaning, and Modernity in Rural China Volume 63

by Ellen Oxfeld

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520293525
• ISBN13: 9780520293526
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"