Food Practices and Family Lives in Urban China

<p>This book explores the emergent relationship between food and family in contemporary China through an empirical case study of Guangzhou a typical city to understand the texture of everyday life in the new consumerist society. </p><p>The primary focus of this book is on the family dynamics of middle-income households in Guangzhou where everyday food practices including growing food shopping storing cooking feeding and eating play a pivotal role. The book aims to conduct a comprehensive and integrated analysis of themes such as material and emotional domestic cultures family relationships and social connections between the domestic and the public based on a discussion of family food practices. These topics will not only offer academic readers a full understanding of the most innovative recent critical engagements with urban Chinese families but also provide more general readers with a broader view of food consumption patterns within the scope of domestic and family issues. </p><p>This book will be of interest to sociologists anthropologists and human geographers as well as post graduate students who are interested in food studies and Chinese studies.</p>