Green Eating and Ecological Risk in China: How the Authoritarian State Shapes Consumer Responsibility (Environment and Society in Asia)

The book critically examines consumer advice urging Chinese citizens to change their food consumption habits and explores what it means to eat green in a country facing ecological risks, food safety concerns, and an authoritarian government aiming to create an eco-civilization. Uncovering the political agendas behind this push for consumer responsibility, this book analyses a range of topics such as food waste and alternative food networks, showing how China's environmental authoritarianism mobilizes consumers to adopt greener food practices while restricting civil society-driven approaches to sustainability that do not align with the state’s vision of eco-civilization. Green Eating and Ecological Risk in China is essential reading for advanced students and researchers of Chinese society and politics, environmental sociology and political science, as well as others interested in environmental governance and the greening of consumption and lifestyles under authoritarianism.