Embodied Modernities : : Corporeality, Representation, and Chinese Cultures /

Embodied Modernities : : Corporeality, Representation, and Chinese Cultures / / ed. by Ari Larissa Heinrich, Fran Martin.

From feminist philosophy to genetic science, scholarship in recent years has succeeded in challenging many entrenched assumptions about the material and biological status of human bodies. Likewise in the study of Chinese cultures, accelerating globalization and the resultant hybridity have called in...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
MitwirkendeR:
Berry, Chris,
Edwards, Louise,
Epstein, Maram,
Heinrich, Larissa,
Khoo, Olivia,
Martin, Fran,
Proctor-Xu, Jami,
Sang, Tze-Lan D.,
Silvio, Teri,
Stevenson, Mark,
Wu, Cuncun,
Zito, Angela,
Zou, John,
HerausgeberIn:
Heinrich, Ari Larissa,
Martin, Fran,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 20 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Notes And Acknowledgments
  • Part I. Thresholds Of Modernity
  • Chapter 1 Introduction To Part I
  • Chapter 2 Bound To Be Represented Theorizing / Fetishizing Footbinding
  • Chapter 3. Male Love Lost The Fate Of Male Same-Sex Prostitution In Beijing In The Late Nineteenth And Early Twentieth Centuries
  • Chapter 4. Rewriting Sexual Ideals In Yesou Puyan
  • Chapter 5. Cross-Dressed Nation Mei Lanfang And The Clothing Of Modern Chinese Men
  • Chapter 6. The Transgender Body In Wang Dulu'S Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  • Part II. Contemporary Embodiments
  • Chapter 7. Introduction To Part II
  • Chapter 8. Souvenirs Of The Organ Trade The Diasporic Body In Contemporary Chinese Literature And Art
  • Chapter 9. Sport, Fashion, And Beauty New Incarnations Of The Female Politician In Contemporary China
  • Chapter 10. Sites Of Transformation The Body And Ruins In Zhang Yang'S Shower
  • Chapter 11. Stigmatic Bodies The Corporeal Qiu Miaojin
  • Chapter 12. Informationalized Affect The Body In Taiwanese Digital Video Puppetry And Cosplay
  • Chapter 13. Stellar Transit Bruce Lee'S Body Or Chinese Masculinity In A Transnational Frame
  • Chapter 14. Love In Ruins Spectral Bodies Inwong Kar-Wai'S In The Mood For Love
  • Bibliography
  • Filmography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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