Duke University Press
The Mouth That Begs (English, Gang Yue)
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The Chinese ideogram chi is far richer in connotation than the equivalent English verb "to eat." Chi can also be read as "the mouth that begs for food and words." A concept manifest in the twentieth-century Chinese political reality of revolution and massacre, chi suggests a narrative of desire that moves from lack to satiation and back again. In China such fundamental acts as eating or refusing to eat can carry enormous symbolic weight. This boo…
ISBN: 9780822323419
Specifications
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Language | English |
| ISBN-13 | 9780822323419 |
| ISBN-10 | 0822323419 |
| Author | Gang Yue |
