The Mouth That Begs: Hunger, Cannibalism, and the Politics of Eating in Modern China by Gang Yue

The Mouth That Begs: Hunger, Cannibalism, and the Politics of Eating in Modern China

Post-Contemporary Interventions

Gang Yue

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The Chinese ideogram chi is far richer in connotation than the equivalent English verb "to eat." Chi can also be read as "the mouth that begs for food and words." A concept manifest in the twentieth-century Chinese political reality of revolution ...

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