{"id":1421,"date":"2021-09-15T11:02:43","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T11:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2021-09-15T11:02:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T11:02:43","slug":"issue-ten-food-cultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/issue-ten-food-cultures\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue Ten: Food and Cooking Cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Written by Editor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Our tenth issue explores food cultures. We asked contributors to reflect on the different ways in which\u00a0ways in which\u00a0<span class=\"markijbthu50z\">food<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"markfmsp9so59\">cultures<\/span>\u00a0are\/have been understood, practiced, cultivated, represented, governed, politicised and\/or commodified across China and the Sinophone world past and present.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">In our opening piece,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/tasting-home-in-henan-exploring-identity-through-shaoguo\/\">Erin Thomason<\/a> explores\u00a0<em>shaoguo <\/em>\u70e7\u9505<em>,\u00a0<\/em>a cooking method and an appliance specifically constructed in Henan homes, as a practice of identity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The second piece comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/chinas-eating-videos-and-rising-single-person-households-in-the-age-of-urbanisation\/\">Caroline Yiqian Wang<\/a> and looks at the\u00a0development of <em>chibo\u00a0<\/em>\u5403\u64ad or &#8216;eating broadcasts&#8217;,\u00a0in China and discusses its socio-cultural values under the backdrop of Chinese post-reform urbanisation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">In the third piece, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/feeding-the-future-the-politics-of-aspiration-in-a-chinese-market-street\/\">Sam Berlin<\/a> examines the politics of aspiration among food vendors on Taohua Street,\u00a0a fading market street in a Shandong county seat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The fourth piece, written by <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/repositioning-potatoes-in-the-peoples-republic-of-china\/\">Jakob Klein<\/a>, explores\u00a0some of the cultural dimensions of the Chinese party-state\u2019s attempts to convince the populace to eat more potatoes and embrace them as a staple food.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Image credit: University of Westminster&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/westminster-atom.arkivum.net\/index.php\/cpc-1-m-75\">China Visual Arts Project.<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Editor Our tenth issue explores food cultures. We asked contributors to reflect on the different ways in which\u00a0ways in which\u00a0food\u00a0cultures\u00a0are\/have been understood, practiced, cultivated, represented, governed, politicised and\/or commodified across China and the Sinophone world past and present&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":1422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[43,52,83,98,163],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issue-ten","tag-chibo","tag-cooking","tag-food","tag-identity","tag-shaoguo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}