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Gourmets in the land of famine : the culture and politics of rice in modern Canton / Seung-joon Lee.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011.Description: viii, 300 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780804772266 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.1/73180951275 22
LOC classification:
  • HD9066.C573 G835 2011
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Contents:
South of the mountains : the political economy of the Pearl River Delta -- The order of rice in Canton : the formation of the Cantonese provisioning networks and consumer satisfaction -- Tightening the shenggang (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 of the national rice : the Canton famine (1936-1937) and the South China Rice Trading Corporation.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-289) and index.

South of the mountains : the political economy of the Pearl River Delta -- The order of rice in Canton : the formation of the Cantonese provisioning networks and consumer satisfaction -- Tightening the shenggang (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 of the national rice : the Canton famine (1936-1937) and the South China Rice Trading Corporation.

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