Avian influenza and live mixed poultry-animal markets in China

Zhao, Furong; Zhou, Dong-Hui; Shao, Jing; Lin, Tong; Zhang, Yongguang; Chang, Huiyun

doi:10.1016/j.jinf.2015.08.006

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“…The live‐poultry stall has long been considered the dirtiest, most atrocious, and disease‐prone place in a wet market. Most of the existing studies on the live‐poultry trade in China have been conducted from the perspectives of hygiene, epidemiology, and microbiology, linking the live‐poultry trade directly to the spread of avian influenza (Bailey et al, 2018; Zhao et al, 2015; Zhou et al, 2015). Yu (2007) explores, for instance, how live‐poultry trade regulations can be traced back to the mid‐1990s when the incipient form of the H9N2 influenza virus caused enzootics in poultry and, later, the highly pathogenic strain of subtype H5N1 proved to be transmittable from birds to mammals.…”

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Culinary art, political theater, and COVID‐19 policy: An ethnographic study of a live poultry stall in Wuxi

Rodd

2022

Culture Agric Food & Envi

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Emblematic of the ubiquitous wet markets in China, the live-poultry trade has farreaching influences on Chinese people's diet, culinary art, social interactions, and cultural identities. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the live-poultry trade has also borne the brunt of this public health crisis due to its notorious history of spreading avian flu and its association with the spread of coronavirus. There have been seriousconsequences-successive open-ended bans on live poultry trade at urban markets have been announced by several cities, Wuxi, China, included. Based on seven-week field research on a conventional live-poultry stall at a major wet market in Wuxi, this article examines the live-poultry stall's work setting, interactions between live-poultry vendors and consumers in building and practicing culinary values (including food qualities and cooking mastery), ethical issues around live-poultry slaughtering, and how the local Wuxi government contrives to rehabilitate the city from an "endemic" business via an epidemic. We argue that there are underlying political agendas relating to cravings for modernity and urbanization behind a seemingly radical hygienic discourse, which tends to proselytize cultural customs and suppress the social functions of public space. The live-poultry stall thus undergoes intersectional framing as a "culinary oasis" versus a "petri dish," and a "social courtyard" versus a "political theater," in this national anti-epidemic movement.

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Culinary art, political theater, and COVID‐19 policy: An ethnographic study of a live poultry stall in Wuxi

Rodd

2022

Culture Agric Food & Envi

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Avian influenza and live mixed poultry-animal markets in China

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Culinary art, political theater, and COVID‐19 policy: An ethnographic study of a live poultry stall in Wuxi

Culinary art, political theater, and COVID‐19 policy: An ethnographic study of a live poultry stall in Wuxi

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