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Food issues 食事

Interdisciplinary Studies on Food in Modern and Contemporary East Asia
  • Edited by:
  • Miriam Castorina,
  • Diego Cucinelli,

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.

  • Keywords:
  • Food Culture,
  • Food Studies,
  • China,
  • Japan,
  • Modern and Contemporary East Asia,
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Miriam Castorina

University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-8384-7925

Diego Cucinelli

University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-3773-2921

Miriam Castorina received her PhD in History and Civilization of East Asia in 2008 at the University of Rome La Sapienza. She spent a year as a visiting scholar at Peking University and is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Florence. Her research focuses on Chinese travel literature, cultural contacts between Italy and China, and the history of Chinese teaching in Italy. Her latest publications include the book In the garden of the world. Italy to a young 19th century Chinese traveler (FUP, 2020) and an Italian translation of The Art of war by Sunzi (Giunti, 2021).

Diego Cucinelli received his PhD in History and Civilization of East Asia in 2013 at the University of Rome La Sapienza (Modern and Contemporary Japanese Literature) and he teaches Japanese Language and Culture at the University of Florence. His main research fields are the Japanese demonology and the Fantastique in Japanese Literature. He focused his studies on modern and contemporary novelists such as Kuroiwa Ruikō, Uchida Hyakken, Miyamoto Yuriko, Edogawa Ranpo, Umezaki Haruo, Murakami Haruki and Kyōgoku Natsuhiko.
Japanese studies
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pp.77-92


Chinese studies
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pp.111-125


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pp.143-160


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Book Title

Food issues 食事

Book Subtitle

Interdisciplinary Studies on Food in Modern and Contemporary East Asia

Editors

Miriam Castorina, Diego Cucinelli

Peer Reviewed

Number of Pages

202

Publication Year

2021

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© 2021 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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Firenze University Press

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10.36253/978-88-5518-506-6

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978-88-5518-505-9

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978-88-5518-506-6

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Studi e saggi

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2704-6478

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2704-5919

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