Timothy Mo's Sour Sweet -- Political and Social Contexts

• Food in Chinese Culture: An Introduction
• A Man-Eats-Man World; and the Empire Writes (and Cooks) Back
• A Taste of Both Worlds
• Eat, Drink, and Be Merry
• Amy Tan on Food
• Sweet Sour, Sour Sweet -- Food as Philosophy of Life
• The Family in Rushdie and Mo
• Women View Men; Men View Women
• Male and Female, Status, and Indirection
• Gender Roles in Mo's Sour Sweet
• Lily and Chen Arrive at a Decision: Male and Female, Status, and Indirection
• The Global Racket: The Triads
• Culture of Balance and Balance of Cultures: A Gendered Approach to Cross-Cultural Adaptation Process in Timothy Mo's Sour Sweet