TY - JOUR
T1 - Brian R. Dott, The Chile Pepper in China: A Cultural Biography
AU - Pio Kuo, Chung-Hao
PY - 2020/12/1
Y1 - 2020/12/1
N2 - Recently, scholars in Chinese history have conducted research on specific and unique Chinese foodstuffs and products to understand their evolution in Chinese history. Largely influenced by Sidney Mintz’s Sweetness and Power as well as the theory of the ‘social life of things’ promoted by Igor Kopytoff and Arjun Appadurai, English-language scholarship has widely explored the history and culinary significance of specific Chinese food-related and agricultural products such as opium, chop suey, chopsticks and tobacco (i.e. Yangwen Zheng, 2005; Yong Chen, 2014; Andrew Coe, 2009; Anne Mendelson, 2016; Edward Q. Wang, 2015; Carol Benedict, 2011). Readers of works by these authors can understand how these food-related and agricultural products were shaped socially and culturally within specific periods in Chinese history.
AB - Recently, scholars in Chinese history have conducted research on specific and unique Chinese foodstuffs and products to understand their evolution in Chinese history. Largely influenced by Sidney Mintz’s Sweetness and Power as well as the theory of the ‘social life of things’ promoted by Igor Kopytoff and Arjun Appadurai, English-language scholarship has widely explored the history and culinary significance of specific Chinese food-related and agricultural products such as opium, chop suey, chopsticks and tobacco (i.e. Yangwen Zheng, 2005; Yong Chen, 2014; Andrew Coe, 2009; Anne Mendelson, 2016; Edward Q. Wang, 2015; Carol Benedict, 2011). Readers of works by these authors can understand how these food-related and agricultural products were shaped socially and culturally within specific periods in Chinese history.
U2 - 10.1093/shm/hkaa115
DO - 10.1093/shm/hkaa115
M3 - Book/Film/Article review
SN - 0951-631X
VL - 34
SP - 345
EP - 347
JO - Social History of Medicine
JF - Social History of Medicine
IS - 1
ER -