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The culture of food and drink occupies a central role in the development of Chinese civilization, and the language of gastronomy has been a vital theme in literary productions through many different eras and genres. From stanzas on food and wine in the 'Book of Odes' to the articulation of refined dining in 'The Dream of the Red Chamber' and Su Shi's literary recipe for attaining culinary perfection, lavish textual representations help explain the unique appeal of food and its overwhelming cultural significance within Chinese society
Contributors; 1: Food and the Literati; 2: From Conservatism to Romanticism; 3: The Morality of Drunkenness in Chinese Literature of the Third Century CE; 4: Making Poetry with Alcohol; 5: The Interplay of Social and Literary History; 6: The Obsessive Gourmet; 7: Tasting the Lotus; 8: Eating and Drinking in a Red Chambered Dream; Notes; Index
