{"product_id":"tasting-paradise-on-earth-jiangnan-foodways-hardcover","title":"Tasting Paradise on Earth: Jiangnan Foodways - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJin Feng\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreparing and consuming food is an integral part of identity formation, which in contemporary China embodies tension between fast-forward modernization and cultural nostalgia. Jin Feng's wide-ranging exploration of cities in the Lower Yangzi Delta--or Jiangnan, a region known for its paradisiacal beauty and abundant resources--illustrates how people preserve culinary inheritance while also revamping it for the new millennium. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout Chinese history, food nostalgia has generated cultural currency for individuals. Feng examines literary treatments of Jiangnan foodways from late imperial and twentieth-century China, highlighting the role played by gender and tracing the contemporary metamorphosis of this cultural landscape, with its new platforms for food culture, such as television and the internet. As communities in Jiangnan refashion their regional heritage, culinary arts shine as markers of ethnic and social distinction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eJin Feng\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of Chinese and the Orville and Mary Patterson Routt Professor of Literature at Grinnell College. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eRomancing the Internet: Consuming and Producing Chinese Web Romance\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Making of a Family Saga: Ginling College (1915-1952)\u003c\/i\u003e, and T\u003ci\u003ehe New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also the translator of C\u003ci\u003ehen Hengzhe's Early Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e and the editor of \u003ci\u003eNostalgia and the Modern City\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 30, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47293364404473,"sku":"9780295745985","price":198.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/jdv02lJh9T9780295745985.webp?v=1769177603","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/tasting-paradise-on-earth-jiangnan-foodways-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}