Of Cities, Wars, and Food

  • Yeh Wen-hsin
    Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond. University of California Press
  • J. Y. Wong
    Deadly Dreams: Opium and the Arrow War (1856-1860) in China. Cambridge University Press
  • Gang Yue
    The Mouth That Begs: Hunger, Cannibalism, and the Politics of Eating in Modern China. Duke University Press
Reviewed by Maria Noëlle Ng
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This review “Of Cities, Wars, and Food” originally appeared in Literature & War. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 179 (Winter 2003): 182-184.

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