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Klein, Jakob A. (2013) '"There is no such thing as Dian cuisine!" Food and local identity in urban Southwest China.' Food and History, 11 (1). pp. 203-225.

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Abstract

The article asks why it is that projects celebrating regional cuisine may be unsuccessful in gaining recognition from people in the region. It explores how a recent campaign in Yunnan, China attempted to construct a “modern” image for the province through promoting a distinctive, “green” regional cuisine. However, in a context of rapid changes to urban space and the food supply, residents in the provincial capital, Kunming, were ambivalent towards the notion of a regional cuisine. It is argued that to gain recognition locally, public celebrations of regional cuisine must resonate with people’s lived experiences and performances of “their” foods.

Item Type: Journal Article
SOAS Departments & Centres: Departments and Subunits > Department of Anthropology & Sociology
Legacy Departments > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Department of Anthropology and Sociology
ISSN: 17803187
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.1484/J.FOOD.1.103561
Date Deposited: 16 Dec 2013 14:57
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/17821

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