Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China (Body, Commodity, Text) Review

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Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China (Body, Commodity, Text) ReviewFarquhar has written a very good book in Appetites. Drawing from conversations, anecdotes, advertising, and--above all--novels, Farquhar is somehow able to convincingly trace a changing subjectivity in China. Never grandiose in her claims, Farquahar addresses this fact: China is changing rapidly, and with its political and economic realignments Chinese personhood is changing too. Careful never to construct a unified "Chinese" experience, the author instead describes mere footprints of an untrapable beast.
She finds in China a subjectivity moving away from, but never forgetting, its histories of socialism and famine. Indeed, eating is a practice through which such histories are thought about, reproduced, and critiqued. Habits, memories, nostalgia, and modernity jostle for positions on contemporary Chinese platters.
At times, the reader may long for more sustained evidence and thicker ethnography. And yet such irritation is inevitably calmed by the author's soothing prose and gentle claims. Unlike some of the medicine ads appearing in Appetites, the author never claims to be providing all of the answers to the body of China.
Farquhar's reading of the changing personage of Lei Feng is striking. She shows that this hero of the revolution has (at least partly) transformed from an image of self-sacrifice, duty, and community, to one now capable of hailing an individual consumer, who can define one's self-centered spending on health as ultimately beneficial to the group. Indeed, the production of such individuality, Farquhar shows, has been necessary to make the segue into new sexual discourses.
Farquhar shows that food, medicine, and sex can never be fully teased apart in China-indeed, they are often blended together so as to whet the appetites.Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China (Body, Commodity, Text) Overview

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