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Between Product and Cuisine: The Moral Economies of Food among Young Chinese People in Japan
[Zeitschriftenartikel]
Abstract Trade and consumption of food in the Sino-Japanese context connects the two countries' tense political relationship to the everyday lives of its citizens. Previous research has shown how food-related incidents have imbued Sino-Japanese relations with political and moral discourse that connects secur... mehr
Trade and consumption of food in the Sino-Japanese context connects the two countries' tense political relationship to the everyday lives of its citizens. Previous research has shown how food-related incidents have imbued Sino-Japanese relations with political and moral discourse that connects security concerns to everyday fears. This article explores how young Chinese people in Japan navigate multiple moral economies related to food. Through analysis of "products" (chanpin/shipin) and "cuisine" (cai/liaoli), this article shows the differing meanings of Chinese moral economies of food from the perspective of young Chinese people living in Japan. In the Sino-Japanese context, products embody more metonymic and nationalised values associated with modernity, whereas the metaphoric possibilities of cuisine afford young Chinese people to negotiate dominant moral economies of food in Japan. Using this example, I argue that greater semiotic attention needs to be paid to the multiple meanings of food and its moral economies.... weniger
Klassifikation
Wirtschaftssoziologie
Ethnologie, Kulturanthropologie, Ethnosoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
China; Japan; mobility; food; product; cuisine
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2019
Seitenangabe
S. 381-399
Zeitschriftentitel
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 48 (2019) 3
ISSN
1868-4874
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)