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American foodie : taste, art, and the cultural revolution

America Discovers Its Palate A Short History of the Taste Revolution Notes We Live from Good Soup The Flavors of Home Why Civilization Rests on Flavor Notes Why Food? Why Now?Instrumental Reason vs. Intrinsic Value Food as a Form of Resistance The Slow Food Movement and Locavorism The Do-It-Yourself Ethos Food as Art Notes Gathering the Tribes Revolutionary Food and the People Who Create It Food and the Avant-Garde When the Useless Becomes Bewitching Notes From Pleasure to Beauty If Kant Was at Myhrvold’s Table Knowledge and Appreciation A Promise of Happiness Notes How to Read a Meal The Flavor of Symbols The Flavors of Home Romance: A Tissue of Little Things Revisited You Are What You Eat Conclusion Notes Can Tuna Casserole Be a Work of Art?But Is It Kitsch?Reconstituting Ordinary Life Notes Habits and Heresies Authenticity, Food Rules, and Tradition Two Meanings of Authenticity Authentic Food Notes The Future of Taste Resistance is Not Futile Mindful Eating Conclusion Notes

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The Divination arts in Girl Culture
Laura miLLer Two young women, both wearing high school uniforms, were browsing in an accessory shop in the western section of tokyo. The girl with the short hair and ready smile was a sagittarius, and she was looking for something very specific: “One of my Lucky Goods for this month is a gold-colored...
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A class enemy during the cultural revolution of1960's and 1970's
In 1966, an unprecedented tribulation, which plunged the whole China into a major tragedy, broke out in the country - the decade-long “Cultural Revolution.” This so-called revolution, which took place in the field of ideology, advocated the abolishment of the old ideas, old culture, old customs and...
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Art, Archives, and Cultural Practices
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Art, Archives, and Cultural Practices
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Victimhood and the Chinese Cultural Revolution
The Chinese Cultural Revolution, despite being generally referred to as the “Ten Years of Chaos,” was in fact preceded by a much larger human disaster - at least in terms of death toll. The Great Famine (1959-1961), which accompanied the Great Leap Forward (1958-1962), resulted in an estimated 40...
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Cultural Revolution, Cultural Trauma
As observed by Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, “the CCP was both instrumental in launching the Cultural Revolution and in bringing it to an end,” and as such, “we are confronted with a very complicated situation regarding the political elite in the PRC [People’s Republic of China]” (“Coping...
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The Sixteen Points: Decision of the Central Committee of the CCP Concerning the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (August 8, 1966)
Perhaps no document so clearly lays out the entire scope and goals of the Cultural Revolution than the Sixteen Point decision of 1966. While Mao's "Little Red Book" may have provided the means by which the Red Guards and other leaders could defend their own actions (and attack those of their rivals),...
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Chairman Mao Joins a Million People to Celebrate the Great Cultural Revolution (August 18, 1966)
From August 18 to November 26,1966, Mao Zedong greeted more than 12 million Red Guards in eight massive rallies in Tiananmen Square. During those months, millions of Chinese youth, Red Guards, middle school and university students, and workers from across the country rushed to Beijing for the chance...
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The “social impacts of the arts” by animating democracy (a program of Americans for the Arts)
In the “Continuum of Impact” guide, Animating Democracy (2017) proposed a framework to provide a way for organisers to articulate clear and realistic outcomes and to enable them to both design effective arts programmes and initiatives and collect evidence of the social impact of those programmes....
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