Appetites and aspirations in Vietnam : food and drink in the long nineteenth century /

In Vietnam during the long nineteenth century from the Tây Sơn rebellion to the 1920s, individuals negotiated changing interpretations of their culinary choices by their families, neighbors and governments. What people ate reflected not just who they were, but also who they wanted to be. "Appet...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peters, Erica J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : AltaMira Press, [2012]
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : hunger and revolution
  • Vietnamese culinary imperialism
  • Culinary diversity in the colonial countryside
  • Cooking up monopolies
  • Fighting back : the factory alcohol boycott
  • Chinese cuisine, commerce, and contamination
  • Imported foods, imperial foods
  • Conspicuous consumption.