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

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List of Contributors vii 1 Food and the Literati: The Gastronomic Discourse of Imperial Chinese Literature 1 Siufu Tang and Isaac Yue 2 From Conservatism to Romanticism: Wine and Prose-Writing from Pre-Qin to Jin 15 Tak Kam Chan 3 The Morality of Drunkenness in Chinese Literature of the Third Century CE 27 Nicholas Morrow Williams 4 Making Poetry with Alcohol: Wine Consumption in Tao Qian, Li Bai and Su Shi 45 Charles Kwong 5 The Interplay of Social and Literary History: Tea in the Poetry of the Middle Historical Period 69 Ronald Egan 6 The Obsessive Gourmet: Zhang Dai on Food and Drink 87 Duncan Campbell 7 Tasting the Lotus: Food, Drink and the Objectification of the Female Body in Gold, Vase, and Plum Blossom 97 Isaac Yue 8 Eating and Drinking in a Red Chambered Dream 113 Louise Edwards Notes 133 Index 159 Contents ...