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Article: The Globalization of Chinese Food
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- International Examiner
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- August 6, 2002
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Namioka, Lensey
International Examiner
08-06-2002
Title:
The Globlization of Chinese Food
Publisher:
University of Hawai'i Press
This book describes Chinese food found currently in various parts of Asia,
including the Philippines, Indonesia, Hong Kong and Japan. Australia is
also included, and there is even a chapter on the food of ethnic minorities
in a certain neighborhood of Beijing.
When I saw that the work is the result of an anthropology symposium, I was
afraid that I'd have to fight through a sludge of academic jargon. And
indeed, the reader has to cope with words like "informationalization" and
phrases like "metaphors through which the mechanism of self-construction
with regard to ethnicity ...