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Bitter and Sweet

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Bitter and Sweet

By Ellen Oxfeld

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About the book

Less than a half century ago, China experienced a cataclysmic famine, which was particularly devastating in the countryside. As a result, older people in rural areas have experienced in their lifetimes both extreme deprivation and relative abundance of food. Young people, on the other hand, have a different relationship to food. Many young rural Chinese are migrating to rapidly industrializing cities for work, leaving behind backbreaking labor but also a connection to food through agriculture. B...Show more

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9780520293526

Publisher

University of California Press

Published year

2017

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