Food Nostalgia in Contemporary China
Catch up with Jin Feng, professor of Chinese and Orville and Mary Patterson Routt Professor of Literature, in this . She talked about her new book, Tasting Paradise on Earth: Jiangnan Foodways (University of Washington Press, 2019), and the course on Chinese and Russian foodways that she and Todd Armstrong, professor of Russian, team-taught in 2017 (see ).
About Tasting Paradise on Earth
Preparing and consuming food is an integral part of identity formation, which in contemporary China embodies tension between fast-forward modernization and cultural nostalgia. Jin Feng’s wide-ranging exploration of cities in the Lower Yangzi Delta — or Jiangnan, a region known for its paradisiacal beauty and abundant resources — illustrates how people preserve culinary inheritance while also revamping it for the new millennium.