Description:This book explores the emergent relationship between food and family in contemporary China through an empirical case study of Guangzhou, a typical urban area, to understand the texture of everyday life in the new consumerist society.The primary focus of this book is on the family dynamics of middle-income households in Guangzhou where everyday food practices, including growing food, shopping, storing, cooking, feeding and eating, play a pivotal role. The book aims to conduct a comprehensive and integrated analysis of themes such as material and emotional domestic cultures, family relationships and social connections between the domestic and the public, based on a discussion of family food practices. These topics will not only offer academic readers a full understanding of the most innovative recent critical engagements with urban Chinese families, but also provide more general readers with a broader view of food consumption patterns within the scope of domestic and family issues.This book will be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists, human geographers as well as post graduate students who are interested in food studies and Chinese studies.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Food Practices and Family Lives in Urban China. To get started finding Food Practices and Family Lives in Urban China, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Description: This book explores the emergent relationship between food and family in contemporary China through an empirical case study of Guangzhou, a typical urban area, to understand the texture of everyday life in the new consumerist society.The primary focus of this book is on the family dynamics of middle-income households in Guangzhou where everyday food practices, including growing food, shopping, storing, cooking, feeding and eating, play a pivotal role. The book aims to conduct a comprehensive and integrated analysis of themes such as material and emotional domestic cultures, family relationships and social connections between the domestic and the public, based on a discussion of family food practices. These topics will not only offer academic readers a full understanding of the most innovative recent critical engagements with urban Chinese families, but also provide more general readers with a broader view of food consumption patterns within the scope of domestic and family issues.This book will be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists, human geographers as well as post graduate students who are interested in food studies and Chinese studies.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Food Practices and Family Lives in Urban China. To get started finding Food Practices and Family Lives in Urban China, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.