Jooyeon Rhee is assistant professor of Asian studies and comparative literature at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.Chikako Nagayama is associate professor at G30 Linguistics and Cultural Studies Program, Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University. Eric Ping Hung Li is associate professor at the Faculty of Management of the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan Campus.

“A book that brings together the strengths of Asian Studies, and Asian American Studies to critically analyze gender dynamics in food media in PRC, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Much of the empirical material is new and exciting, and the conceptual apparatus is subtle and provocative. It helps us understand the cultural transformations associated with rapid socioeconomic change in East Asia and among East Asians elsewhere.”

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Jooyeon Rhee, Chikako Nagayama, and Eric Ping Hung LiPart I: Imagination of Culinary NationalismChapter 1 Women, Waste, and War: Food, Gender, and Rationalization in Wartime Japanese DiscourseNathan HopsonChapter 2 A Bite of the Gender Equality Discourse in China: Observations from FoodGuojun (Sawyer) He, Dandan Fang, and Jonathan Deschênes Chapter 3 Young Men in Chef Uniforms and Suffering Mothers in Hanbok: Gendered Representation of National Cuisine in the Sikkaek SeriesMaria Osetrova Part II: Body and EmbodimentChapter 4 The Body as Food: Gender, Eating, and Cannibalism in Yan Lianke’s The Four Books Shelley W. Chan Chapter 5 “Veganism Will Rise like Feminism”: The Porous Contestation of Intersectional Vegan Feminism against the Exclusive Politics of Korean Popular Feminism Su Young Choi Chapter 6 Embodying Carnal Appetites: Food and Sexuality in Li Ang’s Mandarin Duck Aphrodisiacs Chien-wei Pan Part III

Jooyeon Rhee is assistant professor of Asian studies and comparative literature at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.Chikako Nagayama is associate professor at G30 Linguistics and Cultural Studies Program, Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University. Eric Ping Hung Li is associate professor at the Faculty of Management of the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan Campus.

“A book that brings together the strengths of Asian Studies, and Asian American Studies to critically analyze gender dynamics in food media in PRC, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Much of the empirical material is new and exciting, and the conceptual apparatus is subtle and provocative. It helps us understand the cultural transformations associated with rapid socioeconomic change in East Asia and among East Asians elsewhere.”

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Jooyeon Rhee, Chikako Nagayama, and Eric Ping Hung LiPart I: Imagination of Culinary NationalismChapter 1 Women, Waste, and War: Food, Gender, and Rationalization in Wartime Japanese DiscourseNathan HopsonChapter 2 A Bite of the Gender Equality Discourse in China: Observations from FoodGuojun (Sawyer) He, Dandan Fang, and Jonathan Deschênes Chapter 3 Young Men in Chef Uniforms and Suffering Mothers in Hanbok: Gendered Representation of National Cuisine in the Sikkaek SeriesMaria Osetrova Part II: Body and EmbodimentChapter 4 The Body as Food: Gender, Eating, and Cannibalism in Yan Lianke’s The Four Books Shelley W. Chan Chapter 5 “Veganism Will Rise like Feminism”: The Porous Contestation of Intersectional Vegan Feminism against the Exclusive Politics of Korean Popular Feminism Su Young Choi Chapter 6 Embodying Carnal Appetites: Food and Sexuality in Li Ang’s Mandarin Duck Aphrodisiacs Chien-wei Pan Part III

Jooyeon Rhee is assistant professor of Asian studies and comparative literature at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.Chikako Nagayama is associate professor at G30 Linguistics and Cultural Studies Program, Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University. Eric Ping Hung Li is associate professor at the Faculty of Management of the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan Campus.

“A book that brings together the strengths of Asian Studies, and Asian American Studies to critically analyze gender dynamics in food media in PRC, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Much of the empirical material is new and exciting, and the conceptual apparatus is subtle and provocative. It helps us understand the cultural transformations associated with rapid socioeconomic change in East Asia and among East Asians elsewhere.”

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Jooyeon Rhee, Chikako Nagayama, and Eric Ping Hung LiPart I: Imagination of Culinary NationalismChapter 1 Women, Waste, and War: Food, Gender, and Rationalization in Wartime Japanese DiscourseNathan HopsonChapter 2 A Bite of the Gender Equality Discourse in China: Observations from FoodGuojun (Sawyer) He, Dandan Fang, and Jonathan Deschênes Chapter 3 Young Men in Chef Uniforms and Suffering Mothers in Hanbok: Gendered Representation of National Cuisine in the Sikkaek SeriesMaria Osetrova Part II: Body and EmbodimentChapter 4 The Body as Food: Gender, Eating, and Cannibalism in Yan Lianke’s The Four Books Shelley W. Chan Chapter 5 “Veganism Will Rise like Feminism”: The Porous Contestation of Intersectional Vegan Feminism against the Exclusive Politics of Korean Popular Feminism Su Young Choi Chapter 6 Embodying Carnal Appetites: Food and Sexuality in Li Ang’s Mandarin Duck Aphrodisiacs Chien-wei Pan Part III