 | Tasting Paradise on Earth: Jiangnan Foodways Subjects: Food habits -- China -- Yangtze River Delta -- History; Food -- Social aspects -- China -- Yangtze River Delta -- History; Social change -- China -- Yangtze River Delta -- History; Yangtze River Delta (China) -- Social life and customs; Preparing and consuming food is an integral part of identity formation, which in contemporary China embodies tension between fast-forward modernization and cultural nostalgia. Jin Feng's wide-ranging exploration of cities in the Lower Yangzi Delta--or Jiangnan, a region known for its paradisiacal beauty and abundant resources--illustrates how people preserve culinary inheritance while also revamping it for the new millennium. Jin Feng is professor of Chinese and the Orville and Mary Patterson Routt Professor of Literature at Grinnell College. She is the author of Romancing the Internet: Consuming and Producing Chinese Web Romance , The Making of a Family Saga: Ginling College (1915-1952) , and T he New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction . She is also the translator of C hen Hengzhe's Early Autobiography and the editor of Nostalgia and the Modern City . |
