TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lee,Seung-joon
TI  - Gourmets in the land of famine: the culture and politics of rice in modern Canton 
SN  - 9780804772266 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - HD9066.C573 G835 2011
U1  - 338.1/73180951275 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Stanford, Calif.
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Rice trade
KW  - China
KW  - Guangzhou
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Rice
KW  - Quality
KW  - Food supply
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=32797
ER  -