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Summary:

The contrasting lives of two families -- a traditional four-generation rural family in a Sichuan village and a modern, single-child family in urban Hangzhou -- are viewed through the routines of their daily meals. In the process, the film illustrates how the Chinese family has endured and how it is changing. This is the third film in the classic four-part series, 'A Taste of China,' which remains perhaps the best introduction for Westerners to traditional Chinese culture. In Sichuan, the four generations of the Za family work, cook, and eat together. Attention is focused on the 84-year-old patriarch of the family and his young great-grandson. At the Xu household in Hangzhou, however, the pressures of modern life have affected the attitudes and structure of the family. While his wife works in a nearby factory, Mr. Xu shops in a 'free market' and prepares a fast meal for the family.Interspersed with views of the two families are scenes in which a traditional itinerant storyteller evokes the ancient rhythm of agrarian life and contemporary urban sequences that suggest new patterns of living.

Contributors:

Lerner, Michael, 1951- , director

Li, Sue Yung , producer

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

In English.

Alternate Titles:

Family table

Subjects:

Cooking, Chinese

Families — China — Hangzhou Shi

Food habits — China — Hangzhou Shi

Food habits — China — Sichuan Sheng

Rural families — China — Sichuan Sheng

Families

Food habits

Rural families

China — Sichuan Sheng

China — Hangzhou Shi

Genres:

Documentary films

Online media

Internet videos

General Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed March 31, 2016).
Streaming media.
Restricted to the University of North Texas System.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (29 min.))

Digital Characteristics:

video file

Call Numbers:

Online Video

OCLC Numbers:

947110453

Other Control Numbers:

3180355 (source: VaAlASP)
[Unknown Type]: ASP3180355/food