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Culinary Nostalgia : Regional Food Culture and the Urban Experience in Shanghai

ISBN: 9780804786911 | 0804786917
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 2/27/2013

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Summary
This book argues that regional food culture is intrinsic to how Chinese connect to the past, live in the present, and imagine their future. It focuses on Shanghai--a food lover's paradise--and identifies the importance of regional food culture at pivotal moments in the city's history, and in Chinese history more generally.

Culinary Nostalgiais the first Western-language book to explore the unique significance that the Chinese people attach to their country's many distinct regional foods, as well as the shifting rol... MORE


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