Written by Orna Naftali War culture has had tremendous power in shaping modern understandings of the nation in the PRC. But the role of children’s education in the creation of that culture has received little attention. Most studies that have tackled…
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Written by Editor In this issue, we explore the ways in which children and childhood are/have been understood, inhabited, cultivated, represented, governed, politicised and/or commodified in China and the Sinophone world past and present. In the first piece, Orna Naftali examines…
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Written by Jakob Klein In 2015, China’s Ministry of Agriculture announced a strategy to transform the white potato (Solanum tuberosum) into a staple food for the Chinese nation. Policy documents and promotional literature allege benefits to raising the potato to…
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Written by Samuel Berlin I wanted to choose an industry where people needed the product every day, so I decided to make food, because people have to eat every day. The way I see it, regardless of how bad the…
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Written by Caroline Yiqian Wang Amidst the global food crisis and skyrocketing trade tensions, the Chinese government has begun to wage war on domestic eating videos and live streams (吃播 chibo). Last August, Chinese Central Television (CCTV) reproached chibo for…
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Written by Erin Thomason Aunt Wang had accompanied her son and his young family as domestic support while her son worked in an urban area. When her first daughter-in-law left in divorce shortly after the birth of her grandson, she…
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Written by Editor Our tenth issue explores food cultures. We asked contributors to reflect on the different ways in which ways in which food cultures are/have been understood, practiced, cultivated, represented, governed, politicised and/or commodified across China and the Sinophone world past and present….
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Written by Darryl Sterk Like their counterparts at Indigenous language revitalization offices around Taiwan, my friends at the Seediq language revitalization office, which is located in the town of Puli near the island’s geographical centre, are ‘autoethnobotanists,’ people who study their…
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Written by Shaw-wu Jung In an interesting article, Boeck (1998) explores how in building ecological space local people make sense of their material, symbolic, and metaphoric worlds. To put his insights in a context in which a successful reconstruction of…
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Written by Justyna Jaguscik In the 2010s, following the global virality of Chai Jing’s 柴静 movie Under the Dome (穹顶之下 Qiongding zhi xia, 2015), which addressed the impact of air pollution on children’s health from the perspective of a concerned mother,…
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