Food issues : interdisciplinary studies on food in modern and contemporary East Asia

Includes bibliographical references.

Food issues. Interdisciplinary Studies on Food in Modern and Contemporary East Asia concentrates on the relationship among food, culture, literature, and language in a comparative, transcultural, or literary perspective. The contributions investigate these aspects from different approaches: historical, sociological, anthropological, religious, linguistic, and want to deepen issues such as the symbolic value of food; food as an essential element for the construction of individual identity and a sign of belonging to a community; food as an intercultural medium; food as language and the language of food.

The articles included in the volume are organized in a Japanese and a Chinese section and use different approaches within humanities disciplines to explore topics ranging from classical and contemporary East Asian literature to present-day issues, focusing on Food Culture and its declinations. Miriam Castorina received her PhD in History and Civilization of East Asia in 2008 at the University of Rome La Sapienza. She spent a year as a visiting scholar at Peking University and is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Florence. Her research focuses on Chinese travel literature, cultural contacts between Italy and China, and the history of Chinese teaching in Italy. Her latest publications include the book In the garden of the world. Italy to a young 19th century Chinese traveler (FUP, 2020) and an Italian translation of The Art of war by Sunzi (Giunti, 2021). [Publisher's text]

Texts in English and Japanese.

Collected essays.