Culinary NostalgiaCulinary Nostalgia is the first Western language book to explore the unique significance that the Chinese people attach to their country's many distinct regional foods, as well as the shifting roles that Western food plays in urban life. Author Mark Swislocki focuses on Shanghaia food lover's paradiseas a rich intersection of urban, regional, and national identities, and examines how tastes registered change and continuity at pivotal moments