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Moral Foods
The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia
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eBook - PDF
Moral Foods
The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. GOOD FOODS
- 1. Health, Wealth, and Solidarity: Rice as Self in Japan and Malaysia
- 2. Confronting the Cow: Soybean Milk and the Fashioning of a Chinese Dairy Alternative
- 3. Moral Responsibility for Nutritional Milk: Motherhood and Breastfeeding in Modern Japan
- 4. Eating Well for Survival: Chinese Nutrition Experiments during World War II
- Part II. BAD FOODS
- 5. The Good, the Bad, and the Toxic: Moral Foods in British India
- 6. The Good, the Bad, and the Foreign: Trajectories of Three Grains in Modern South Korea
- 7. Snacking, Health, Modernity: Moralizing Confections in Japan, 1890–1930
- 8. Bad Meat: Food and the Medicine of Modern Hygiene in Colonial Hong Kong
- Part III. MORAL FOODS
- 9. Becoming Healthy: Changing Perception of Tea’s Effects on the Body
- 10. To Build or to Transform Vegetarian China: Two Republican Projects
- 11. From Civilizing Foods for Nourishing Life to a Global Traditional Chinese Medicine Dietetics: Changing Perceptions of Foods in Chinese Medicine
- 12. Good Food, Bad Bodies: Lactose Intolerance and the Rise of Milk Culture in China
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index