Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China

(Part of the Body, Commodity, Text Series)

by Judith Farquhar

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Judith Farquhar's innovative study of medicine and popular culture in modern China reveals the thoroughly political and historical character of pleasure. Ranging over a variety of cultural terrains--fiction, medical texts, film and television, journalism, and observations of clinics and urban daily life in Beijing-- Appetites challenges the assumption that the mundane enjoyments of bodily life are natural and unvarying. Farquhar analyzes modern Chinese...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822329212

ISBN13:9780822329213

Release Date:April 2002

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:360 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.8" x 9.1"

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