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10. To Build or to Transform Vegetarian China: Two Republican Projects by Leung, Angela Ki Che; Caldwell, Melissa L.; Ku, Robert Ji-Song; Yano, Christine R.; Arnold, David; Bray, Francesca; Caldwell, Melissa L.; Fu, Jia-Chen; Kim, Tae-Ho; Leung, Angela Ki Che; Liu, Michael Shiyung; Mitsuda, Tatsuya; Nakayama, Izumi; Peckham, Robert; Scheid, Volker; Smith, Hilary A.; Zhang, Lawrence Lok Cheung is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

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Moral Foods: The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia investigates how foods came to be established as moral entities, how moral food regimes reveal emerging systems of knowledge and enforcement, and how these developments have contributed to new Asian nutritional knowledge regimes. The collection's focus on cross-cultural and transhistorical comparisons across Asia brings into view a broad spectrum of modern Asia that extends from East Asia, Southeast Asia, to South Asia, as well as into global communities of Western knowledge, practice, and power outside Asia. The first section, "Good Foods," focuses on how food norms and rules have been established in modern Asia. Ideas about good foods and good bodies shift at different moments, in some cases privileging local foods and knowledge systems, and in other cases privileging foreign foods and knowledge systems. The second section, "Bad Foods," focuses on what makes foods bad and even dangerous. Bad foods are not simply unpleasant or undesirable for aesthetic or sensory reasons, but they can hinder the stability and development of persons and societies. Bad foods are symbolically polluting, as in the case of foreign foo

Author

Leung, Angela Ki Che; Caldwell, Melissa L.; Ku, Robert Ji-Song; Yano, Christine R.; Arnold, David; Bray, Francesca; Caldwell, Melissa L.; Fu, Jia-Chen; Kim, Tae-Ho; Leung, Angela Ki Che; Liu, Michael Shiyung; Mitsuda, Tatsuya; Nakayama, Izumi; Peckham, Robert; Scheid, Volker; Smith, Hilary A.; Zhang, Lawrence Lok Cheung

Publisher

University of Hawai'i Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780824888428