...Miranda Brown This article documents the presence of cheese in the culinary traditions of southeast China between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries through a close analysis of a single recipe collection, Mr. Song's Book of Nourishing Life. It opens by examining Mr. Song's techniques...

... Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2019 street portraits photography Xi'an Muslim China street food Markets and the Making of Muslim Space in Urban China: Street Portraits from Xi an s Huimin Jie Abstract: This photo essay explores...

... coded in ways that force uninitiated outsiders to fail, perhaps unknowingly, in local eyes. authenticity ethics legalism and moralism performance China Greece Italy Thailand © 2019 by the Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests...

...Sacha Cody This article examines how commodity status is achieved and how value is articulated across three food provisioning practices and ideologies in China: nationally certified food, local government-sponsored organic food near Shanghai, and an alternative food movement comprising small-scale...

...Ann Veeck; Hongyan Yu; Gregory Veeck In many areas of rural China, pig feasts have long functioned as a vital ritual exchange among codependent farm households. Called sha nian zhu (roughly translated as “killing the year's pig”), the annual reciprocal feast has traditionally served to maintain...

...Lawrence Zhang This paper traces the historical antecedents and influences on modern Chinese tea arts. What is now commonly known as gongfucha , which has become the standard Chinese tea ceremony, was originally a regional custom from the Chaozhou area of China. Through the twentieth century...

...© 2010 The Regents of the University of California. All Rights Reserved. 2010 China Globalization Ideology Nostalgia Postsocialism Shenzhen investigations | mary ann o donnell The Cultural Politics of Eating in Shenzhen In 1995, over lunch at a modern restaurant in Shenzhen, South...

...eric c. rath With assistance from lay volunteers and using a giant stove, Tibetan monks at Longen monastery in rural Qinghai province China prepare and serve meals for several hundred of their peers during the summer retreat. In the past, rugged geography and the isolation of this monastery above...