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Culinary nostalgia : regional food culture and the urban experience in Shanghai / Mark Swislocki.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swislocki, Mark.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking--China--Shanghai--History.
- Cooking.
- Food habits--China--Shanghai--History.
- Food habits.
- Cooking, Chinese--Shanghai style.
- Cooking, Chinese.
- History.
- Shanghai (China)--Social life and customs.
- Shanghai (China).
- China--Shanghai.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 304 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Introduction : thinking about food in Chinese history
- "Only available in Shanghai" : the honey nectar peach and the idea of Shanghai in late imperial China
- A tale of two cities : food culture and the urban ideal in late Qing Shanghai
- From modernity to tradition : Western food in late Qing and early Republican Shanghai
- "Where the five directions come together" : regional foodways, the nation, and consumer culture in Republican Shanghai
- Serve the people : socialist transformations of Shanghai food culture
- Epilogue : Shanghai cuisine past and present : between benbangcai and haipaicai.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-289) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804760126
- 0804760128
- OCLC:
- 225875969
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