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Author	Lee, Seung-joon, 1970-
Title	Gourmets in the land of famine : the culture and politics of rice in modern Canton / Seung-joon Lee.
Publish Info	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011.

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Description viii, 300 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-289) and index.

Contents South of the mountains : the political economy of the Pearl River Delta -- The organization of rice supplies in Canton : the formation of the Cantonese provisioning networks and consumer satisfaction -- Tightening the Canton-Hong Kong ties : rice relief and the development of transnational rice business -- Politicizing the enterprise : the nationalist revolution and the Cantonese rice business -- Taste in numbers : science and the Chinese food problem -- Taxes and strikes : the foreign-rice tax and social repercussions -- Inventing the "national rice" : the national goods movement and the issue of rice quality -- Granary of the empire, laboratory of the nation : the Canton-Hankow railway and the Hunan rice sales project in Canton -- Provincial politics and national rice : the Canton famine of 1936-1937 and the South China Rice Trading Corporation.

Summary This book project is a cultural history of rice consumption in the city of Canton (now Guangzhou), China's southernmost metropolis. Special emphasis is placed on the qualitative dimension of the local food culture and the dynamic interactions between the local society and the modern state.

Subjects Rice trade -- China -- Guangzhou -- History -- 20th century.

Rice trade -- Government policy -- China -- Guangzhou -- History -- 20th century.

Rice -- Quality -- China -- Guangzhou -- History -- 20th century.

Food supply -- China -- Guangzhou -- History -- 20th century.

Dewey No 338.1/73180951275 22

LC NO HD9066.C573 G835 2011

OCLC # 630480176

ISBN 9780804772266 (cloth : alk. paper)

0804772266 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN 2010024485

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