Culinary nostalgia
Subtitle: regional food culture and the urban experience in Shanghai
By: Mark Swislocki.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780804760126
Subjects: Cookery -- China -- Shanghai -- History; Food habits -- China -- Shanghai -- History; Cookery, Chinese -- Shanghai style; Shanghai (China) -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : thinking about food in Chinese history; title: "Only available in Shanghai" : the honey nectar peach and the idea of Shanghai in late imperial China; title: A tale of two cities : food culture and the urban ideal in late Qing Shanghai; title: From modernity to tradition : Western food in late Qing and early Republican Shanghai; title: "Where the five directions come together" : regional foodways, the nation, and consumer culture in Republican Shanghai; title: Serve the people : socialist transformations of Shanghai food culture; title: Epilogue : Shanghai cuisine past and present : between benbangcai and haipaicai.