Moral foods [electronic resource] : the construction of nutrition and health in modern Asia / edited by Angela Ki Che Leung and Melissa L. Caldwell.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Food in Asia and the Pacific.
Other Authors: Liang, Qizi (Editor)
Caldwell, Melissa L., 1969- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2019]
Series:Food in Asia and the Pacific.
Subjects:
Online Access:
Variant Title:
Construction of nutrition and health in modern Asia
Moral Foods: The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Food and health: fortification and modern Asian state making / Melissa L. Caldwell and Angela Ki Che Leung
  • Health, wealth, and solidarity: rice as self in Japan and Malaysia / Francesca Bray
  • Confronting the cow: soybean milk and the fashioning of a Chinese dairy alternative / Jia-Chen Fu
  • Moral responsibility for nutritional milk: motherhood and breastfeeding in modern Japan / Izumi Nakayama
  • Eating well for survival: Chinese nutrition experiments during World War II / Michael Shiyung Liu
  • The good, the bad, and the toxic: moral foods in British India / David Arnold
  • The good, the bad, and the foreign: trajectories of three grains in modern South Korea / Tae-Ho Kim
  • Snacking, health, modernity: moralizing confections in Japan, 1890-1930 / Tatsuya Mitsuda
  • Bad meat: food and the medicine of modern hygiene in colonial Hong Kong / Robert Peckham
  • Becoming healthy: changing perception of tea's effects on the body / Lawrence Zhang
  • To build or to transform vegetarian China: two republican projects / Angela Ki Che Leung
  • From civilizing foods for nourishing life to a global traditional Chinese medicine dietetics: changing perceptions of foods in Chinese medicine / Volker Scheid
  • Good food, bad bodies: lactose intolerance and the rise of milk culture in China / Hilary A. Smith.