The Mouth That Begs: Hunger, Cannibalism, and the Politics of Eating in Modern China (Post-Contemporary Interventions / Latin America in Translation)

by Gang Yue (Author)

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  Paperback
  1999

  $43.13

  Suitable for sinologists, literary critics, anthropologists, cultural studies scholars, and others curious about the semiotics of food, this book examines the twentieth-century Chinese political experience as it is represented literature through hunger, cooking, eating, and cannibalising. It includes chapters on Xiao Hong, Wang Anyi, and Li Ang.