Scribes of Gastronomy: Representations of Food and Drink in Imperial Chinese Literature

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Index Adams, Carol J., 103 aesthetics, 8, 25, 49, 61 alcohol, 4, 10–11, 13, 17 aesthetic functions, 50–53 and aging, 42–43 as anaesthetic, 52, 140n2 creative functions of, 50, 56, 61, 126 drinking habits, 89–90 drinking vessels, 16, 93 and escapism, 42–43 in Han literature, 47–48 and heroism, 19–20, 48, 54, 55–58, 59, 64–65 and Nature, 24–25, 49, 59–60 in political expression, 46–47, 64–65 and political strategy, 40–41 in pre-Qin literature, 15–19, 20, 46–47 prohibition, 15, 20–22, 25, 30–32, 137n12 in rites/ritual (see under rites/ritual) and ‘romanticism’ (桐㳩) in Chinese literature, 25 and social criticism, 62–64 and spiritual transcendence, 50–51, 53–59 in Tang literature, 54–65 in Wei-Jin literature, 19–22 see also Book of Rites; Cao Cao; Cao Zhi; Classic of Poetry; Confucianists; Confucius; Daoism; Dream of the Red Chamber; ‘Drunkenland’; drunkenness; Du Fu; fu literature; Kong Rong; Li Bai; Liu Bang; Liu Ling; Mencius; Seven Worthies of the Bamboo Grove; Shang dynasty; Su Shi; Tao Qian; Xunzi; Zhuangzi ancestor worship, 2, 5–6, 30–31, 138n16 artifice (weiġ‥), 4 Bai, Limin, 122 Ban Gu 䎕⚢, 21, 48 Bao Jingyan 欹㔔妨, 40 beauty. See aesthetics benevolence (renġṩ), 7 Bi Zhuo 䔊⋻, 70, 142n24 Book of Etiquette (Yiliġ₨䥖),16 Book of Rites (Li jiġ䥖姀), 4, 5 on drunkenness, 29, 38 border sacrifice (jiaoġ恲), 5 breast milk, 122–24, 156n17 Buddhism, 8, 69–74, 77–78, 120, 154n4 Buddhist nuns, 128–30 monk-poets, 69–71 tea with monks, 69, 71, 84 see also Su Shi Buddhist monasteries tea in, 69–71, 75, 77–78 Cai Jing 哉Ṕ, 74 Cai Xiang 哉壬, 78–79 Cao Cao 㚡㑵, 20–21 on alcohol, 10, 47–48 prohibition of alcohol, 20, 22, 30–32 Cao Pi 㚡ᶽ, 77 Cao Zhi 㚡㢵 wine fu, 21, 22, 32 Cao Xueqin 㚡暒剡, 13, 130. See also Dream of the Red Chamber Cass, Victoria Baldwin, 106 Chang Kwang-chih, 1, 88 160 Index Chonger 慵俛. See Duke Wen of Jin ciġ娆ġpoetry, 11, 55, 60, 62–65 Classic of Poetry (Shi jing 娑䴻), 1, 3–4 on alcohol, 45–46 Classic of Teaġ勞䴻. See Lu Yu Clunas, Craig, 91, 150n25 Confucianism, 2, 7, 18, 29 Confucianists, 4–5, 18 on drunkenness, 29, 40 Confucius ⫼⫸, 2, 4, 5, 73, 75, 125 and alcohol, 31, 36, 138n19 on alcohol, 16–17, 46–47 on food, 92 connoisseurship, 11, 12 parody of, 82 tea, 78–81 texts, 127, 150n25 Cowper, William, 53–54 Cui Shi, Ⲽ䞛, 70–71 cultural embellishment (wenġ㔯), 5 Daoism, 38, 55, 83 and alcohol, 10, 29–30, 34, 46–47, 49, 66–67 and gold, 105 mysticism, 40, 34, see also Liezi; xuanxue Ding Naifei, 102–3 dining, the art of. See gastronomy Dong Zhuo 吋⋻, 30 dough-head (mantouġ棭柕), 6–7, 134n26 Dream of the Red Chamber (Honglou meng 䲭 㦻⣊), 1, 13 alcohol and social breakdown, 125–27 breast milk and pollution, 122–24 food and moral boundaries, 114–19 food and pollution, 119–22 food, 113–15, 154n4, 156n17 medicinals, 155n7 tea and social hierarchy, 127–30 see also Cao Xueqin; Prospect Garden Drinking. See alcohol ‘Drunkenland’ 愱悱, 18, 136n28 drunkenness, 10, 20, 61–62 in the Shang dynasty, 46 Du Fu 㜄䓓, 3, 8, 87 on alcohol, 55–56, 60, 62 on taotie, 133n9 Du Kang 㜄⹟, 27, 33 Du Mu 㜄䈏, 60 Duke of Zhou ␐℔, 48, 72, 73 and alcohol, 16, 46 Duke Wen of Jin 㗱㔯℔, 19 eccentrics, 32–34 Epstein, Maram, 115 eroticism in food, 98, 101–2 Fan Kuai 㦲☚, 20, 31, 138n20 Fan Li 劫埉, 76–77 female objectification, 102–10 Freud, Sigmund, 100–101 fuġ岎ġliterature on wine (‘Wine fu’ 惺岎), 20–21, 32–34, 36 Furth, Charlotte, 122 Gao Jianli, 19, 20 gastronomy, 1, 7, 9, 10, 12. See also sexuality and gastronomy gentlemen (junziġ⏃⫸), 5, 17 Gold, Vase, and Plum Blossom (Jinpingmeiġ慹 䒞㠭), 7, 12, 97, 105, 153n2 see also sexuality and gastronomy Gongsun Chao ℔⬓㛅, 18 Goody, Jack, 87, 8 Guan Fu 㿴⣓, 20 Hawkes, David, 123 Heaven (tianġ⣑), 5 Holzman, Donald, 39 Hsia, C. T., 12 Hsiao Kung-ch’üan, 40 Hu Yannan 傉埵⋿, 98–99 Huaisu ㆟䳈, 56 Huang, Martin W., 12 Huang Tingjian 湫⹕➭, 76–77 Index 161 ideology, food and, 9 James, William, 27, 43 Jeanneret, Michel, 9 Ji Dan ⦔㖎. See Duke of Zhou Ji Kang ⳯⹟, 23 Jiaoran 䘶䃞, 69–71, 74 Jie 㟨 (descendent of Emperor Yu), 16 Jing Ke 勲庣, 19, 20, 54, 64 Jinyun clan 䶱暚㮷, 2 junzi ⏃⫸. See gentlemen Knechtges, David, 12 Kong...