The historicization of nostalgia, locality and quotidianity: on the changes in Lim Kim Chern’s gastronomic writing

• Main Authors: Teoh, Hooi See, Tsai, Yiing Ing
• Format: Article
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2018
• Subjects: PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/21883/; https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2018.1463155

This article seeks to shed light on Lim Kim Chern’s gastronomic writing, by ensconcing this individual case in the context of Modern Chinese Prose as an enduring literary tradition, in order to elicit the attribute of locality with diasporic discourse in quotidian life, that distinguishes it as part...