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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Published in:	The Journal of Asian studies Vol. 71; no. 3; pp. 705 - 729
Main Author:	Yan, Yunxiang
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York, USA Cambridge University Press 01.08.2012 Duke University Press, NC & IL
Subjects:	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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