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Author Farquhar, Judith, author.

Title Appetites : food and sex in postsocialist China / Judith Farquhar
Published Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 341 pages : illustrations
Series Body, commodity, text
Body, commodity, text.
Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction; part i. eating: a politicsof the senses; Preamble to Part I : Lei Feng, Tireless Servant of the People; 1. Medicinal Meals; 2. A Feast for the Mind; 3. Excess and Deficiency; part ii. desiring:an ethics of embodiment; Preamble to Part II: Du Wanxiang: The Rosy Glow of the Good Communist; 4. Writing the Self: The Romance of the Personal; 5. Sexual Science: The Representation of Behavior; 6. Ars Erotica; Conclusion: Hailing Historical Bodies; Notes; References; Index
Summary An experimental ethnography of food, sex, and health in post-socialist China
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Human body -- Social aspects -- China
Food habits -- China
Sex customs -- China
Medicine -- China
Ethnology.
Food habits.
Medicine, Chinese.
Anthropology, Cultural
Feeding Behavior
Medicine, Chinese Traditional
Sexuality
Ethnology
ethnology.
social anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Agriculture & Food.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Customs & Traditions.
Medicine, Chinese
Ethnology
Food habits
Human body -- Social aspects
Medicine
Sex customs
Social conditions
Menselijk lichaam.
Voedingsgewoonten.
Lebensmittelverbrauch
Sexualität
SUBJECT China -- Social conditions -- 1976-2000. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024185
China
Subject China
China
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822383451
0822383454
1283063255
9781283063258
9786613063250
6613063258