te is an annual bilingual publication on contemporary cultural anthropology. In each issue, we will invite creatives from different realms to explore the notion of cultural flow worldwide, including exams the present status of the language, customs, and culture of diverse local communities, as well as how the individual narrative shifts due to the social environment and geopolitics.

The Lost Society
There cannot be more possibilities and layers of complexity embodied in food throughout human development. On one hand, it constructed a system that assembles taste, cultural memory and historical movements; on the other hand, the correlation between food and geography provides a hidden motivation to examine human behaviours and social transformation. This inaugural issue of te magazine adopts Ye Wuji's "The Lost Society" as the central theme. The term "lost" means ephemeral silence and enfeeblement rather than disappearance and extinction. This means that many cultures only dissipated temporarily, and some are metamorphised. Food happens to witness this transition, and the word "society" refers to a collective destiny. In this issue, we invited 11 creative practitioners of different disciplines — to bring in and reflect upon their respective expertise, knowledge system and research trajectories from and in anthropology, sociology, and contemporary art — to explore food as a multifaceted intricacy, at the same time reconstruct the relationship between food and geography.

Editor(s): Hetian Guo, Kechun Qin
Year: 2021
Pages: 160
Dimensions: 18.5 x 26 cm
Cover: Softcover
Language: Chinese/English