Food Safety and Social Risk in Contemporary China

Food-safety problems constitute a new, urgent, and multifaceted challenge to Chinese people, society, and the state, involving a number of social, political, and ethical issues beyond those of food safety, nutrition, and health. In light of Ulrich Beck's theory of risk society, this article exa...

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Vydáno v:	The Journal of Asian studies Ročník 71; číslo 3; s. 705 - 729
Hlavní autor:	Yan, Yunxiang
Médium:	Journal Article
Jazyk:	angličtina
Vydáno:	New York, USA Cambridge University Press 01.08.2012 Duke University Press, NC & IL
Témata:	Asia Asian Cultural Groups Asian studies Beck, Ulrich (1944-2015) Case studies Chemical contaminants Chemical hazards China Chinese Chinese languages Contemporary history Diet Ethical dilemmas Ethics Ethnology Factory farming Food Food contamination Food contamination & poisoning Food law Food poisoning Food processing Food safety Food, food preparation Health Problems Healthy food Hygiene Modernity Modernization Morphological source materials Nutrition Organic farming Peoples Republic of China Pesticides Politics Public health Risk Risk Society Safety Social problems Social relations. Intercultural and interethnic relations. Collective identity Social structure and social relations Society Technology Trust Unsafe China Eastern Asia Decline Poisening Theory Food security Risk society Trust Hygiene Food
ISSN:	0021-9118, 1752-0401
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Shrnutí:	Food-safety problems constitute a new, urgent, and multifaceted challenge to Chinese people, society, and the state, involving a number of social, political, and ethical issues beyond those of food safety, nutrition, and health. In light of Ulrich Beck's theory of risk society, this article examines food-safety problems in contemporary Chinese society at the levels of food hygiene, unsafe food, and poisonous foods and argues that food-safety problems not only affect the lives of Chinese people in harmful ways but also pose a number of manufactured risks that are difficult to calculate and control. More importantly, food-safety problems in China have contributed to a rapid decline of social trust, thus posing a risk of distrust that has far-reaching social and political ramifications. In this sense, a risk society has already arrived in China but it comes with certain local characteristics and poses some new theoretical questions.
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ISSN:	0021-9118 1752-0401
DOI:	10.1017/S0021911812000678