Food and War in Mid-twentieth-century East Asia (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction, Katarzyna J. Cwiertka; Part I Supplying Nutrition: From riots to relief: rice, local government and charities in occupied Central China, Toby Lincoln; Food rationing and the black market in wartime Korea, Kyoung-Hee Park; A dearth of animal protein: reforming nutrition in occupied Japan (1945-1952), Christopher Aldous; From feeding the army to nourishing the people: the impact of wartime mobilization and institutions on grain supply in post-1949 Su’nan and Taiwan, Julia C. Strauss; Feeding the UN troops in the Korean War (1950-1953), Katarzyna J. Cwiertka. Part II The Complexity of Eating: An insatiable parasite: eating and drinking in WWII armies of the Asia-Pacific theatre (1937-1945), Aaron William Moore; The ’food problem’ of evacuated children in wartime Japan, 1944-1945, Samuel Hideo Yamashita; A ’great East Asian meal’ in post-colonial Seoul, Autumn 1945, Lori Watt; Learning about radioactive contamination of food: lessons from Hiroshima and US nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands, Nancy J. Pollock; Index.