Scribes of gastronomy : representations of food and drink in imperial Chinese literature / edited by Isaac Yue and Siufu Tang.
The culture of food and drink occupies a central role in the development of Chinese civilization, and the language of gastronomy has been a vital theme in literary productions through many different eras and genres. From stanzas on food and wine in the Book of Odes to the articulation of refined din...
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Table of Contents:
- Food and the literati : the gastronomic discourse of imperial Chinese literature / Siufu Tang and Isaac Yue
- From conservatism to romanticism : wine and prose-writing from pre-Qin to Jin / Tak Kam Chan
- The Morality of drunkenness in Chinese literature of the third century CE / Nicholas Morrow Williams
- Making poetry with alcohol : wine consumption in Tao Qian, Li Bai and Su Shi / Charles Kwong
- The interplay of social and literary history : tea in the poetry of the middle historical period / Ronald Egan
- The obsessive gourmet : Zhang Dai on food and drink / Duncan Campbell
- Tasting the lotus : food, drink and the objectification of the female body in Gold, Vase, and Plum Blossom / Isaac Yue
- Eating and drinking in a red chambered dream / Louise Edwards.