LEADER 05127nam 22007214 450 001 9910818784103321 005 20140902015303.0 010 $a0-8223-2341-9 010 $a0-8223-9851-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9780822398516 035 $a(CKB)3710000000238168 035 $a(OCoLC)607349915 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10930099 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001351899 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11825402 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001351899 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11309154 035 $a(PQKB)10279984 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3008080 035 $a889595827 035 $a(OCoLC)1144915754 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse80930 035 $a(DE-B1597)553811 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780822398516 035 $a(OCoLC)1229160994 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000238168 100 $a20140829d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe mouth that begs $ehunger, cannibalism, and the politics of eating in modern China /$fGang Yue 210 1$aDurham, NC :$cDuke University Press,$d1999. 215 $a1 online resource (459 p.) 225 1 $aPost-contemporary interventions 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-14104-5 311 $a0-8223-2308-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [419]-433) and index. 327 $tDiscoursing Food: Some Notes toward a Semiotic of Eating in Ancient China --$tThe Social Embodiment of Modernity --$tLu Xun and Cannibalism --$tShen Congwen's "Modest Proposal" --$tWriting Hunger: From Mao to the Dao --$tHunger Revolution and Revolutionary Hunger --$tPostrevolutionary Leftovers: Zhang Xianliang and Ah Cheng --$tThe Return (of) Cannibalism after Tiananmen, or Red Monument in a Latrine Pit --$tMonument Revisited: Zheng Yi and Liu Zhenyun --$tFrom Cannibalism to Carnivorism: Mo Yan's Liquorland --$tSampling of Variety: Gender and Cross-Cultural Perspectives --$tEmbodied Spaces of Home: Xiao Hong, Wang Anyi, and Li Ang --$tBlending Chinese in America: Maxine Hong Kingston, Jade Snow Wong, and Amy Tan. 330 $aThe Chinese ideogram chi is far richer in connotation than the equivalent English verb ?to eat.? Chi can also be read as ?the mouth that begs for food and words.? A concept manifest in the twentieth-century Chinese political reality of revolution and massacre, chi suggests a narrative of desire that moves from lack to satiation and back again. In China such fundamental acts as eating or refusing to eat can carry enormous symbolic weight. This book examines the twentieth-century Chinese political experience as it is represented in literature through hunger, cooking, eating, and cannibalizing. At the core of Gang Yue?s argument lies the premise that the discourse surrounding the most universal of basic human acts?eating?is a culturally specific one.Yue?s discussion begins with a brief look at ancient Chinese alimentary writing and then moves on to its main concern: the exploration and textual analysis of themes of eating in modern Chinese literature from the May Fourth period through the post-Tiananmen era. The broad historical scope of this volume illustrates how widely applicable eating-related metaphors can be. For instance, Yue shows how cannibalism symbolizes old China under European colonization in the writing of Lu Xun. In Mo Yan?s 1992 novel Liquorland, however, cannibalism becomes the symbol of overindulgent consumerism. Yue considers other writers as well, such as Shen Congwen, Wang Ruowang, Lu Wenfu, Zhang Zianliang, Ah Cheng, Zheng Yi, and Liu Zhenyun. A special section devoted to women writers includes a chapter on Xiao Hong, Wang Anyi, and Li Ang, and another on the Chinese-American women writers Jade Snow Wong, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Amy Tan. Throughout, the author compares and contrasts the work of these writers with similarly themed Western literature, weaving a personal and political semiotics of eating.The Mouth That Begs will interest sinologists, literary critics, anthropologists, cultural studies scholars, and everyone curious about the semiotics of food. 410 0$aPost-contemporary interventions. 606 $aChinese literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPolitics in literature 606 $aHunger in literature 606 $aAmerican literature$xChinese American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aChinese Americans$xIntellectual life 606 $aChinese Americans in literature 615 0$aChinese literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPolitics in literature. 615 0$aHunger in literature. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xChinese American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aChinese Americans$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aChinese Americans in literature. 676 $a895.1/09358 700 $aYue$b Gang$f1955-$01724757 801 0$bNDD 801 1$bNDD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818784103321 996 $aThe mouth that begs$94127084 997 $aUNINA