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Food issues 食事
Food issues 食事. Interdisciplinary Studies on Food in Modern and Contemporary East Asia concentrates on the relationship among food, culture, literature, and language in a comparative, transcultural, or literary perspective. The contributions investigate these aspects from different approaches: historical, sociological, anthropological, religious, linguistic, and want to deepen issues such as the symbolic value of food; food as an essential element for the construction of individual identity and a sign of belonging to a community; food as an intercultural medium; food as language and the language of food. The articles included in the volume are organized in a Japanese and a Chinese section and use different approaches within humanities disciplines to explore topics ranging from classical and contemporary East Asian literature to present-day issues, focusing on Food Culture and its declinations
State and Food in South Korea : moulding the national diet in wartime and beyond
This dissertation examines the governmental policies through which people’s food practices were intervened in, controlled and modified in twentieth-century South Korea. The main focus is on the wars that occurred in twentieth-century Korea, as it acted as an important stimulus in increasing state interference in the daily diet of the people and contributed to the transformation of Korean foodways. Despite constant changes in the administration – from the Japanese colonial authorities (1910-45) and the US Military Government (1945-48) to the South Korean government (1948-) – food-related policies have remained at the core of the country’s politics due to the overwhelming importance of food as a political tool. The Japanese measures of food-control instituted during the Asia-Pacific War set the overall tone for the country’s food policies through which the authorities exercised vast control over the food c onsumption of its people. They were reinforced by post-colonial authorities as part of stabilization policies under the circumstance of the Korean War and the Cold War tensions surrounding the country and of economic policies. Modern Korean foodways have been great influenced by state policies that were formulated against a backdrop of war (and the threat of it), colonialism and industrialization, all of which were entangled with each other in complex waysLEI Universiteit LeidenThe Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO, Vidi grant no. 276-53-003)Asian Studie