Appetites

Description:

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 reflections on embodied existence to show how contemporary appetites are grounded in history.

subjects: Medicine,  Social conditions,  Food habits,  Human body,  Sex customs,  Human body, social aspects,  Medicine, china,  China, social conditions,  Social aspects,  Sexuality,  Medicine, chinese traditional,  Feeding behavior,  Anthropology, cultural,  Human body--social aspects,  Human body--social aspects--china,  Food habits--china,  Sex customs--china,  Medicine--china,  Gt497.c6 f37 2002,  2003 g-061,  Gt 497.c6 f238a 2002,  394.1/0951,  Social history

Places: China

Times: 1976-2000