Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation, and Chinese CulturesFran Martin, Ari Larissa Heinrich University of Hawaii Press, 2006年7月31日 - 300 頁 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 into question previous assumptions about the boundaries of Chinese national and ethnic identity. The problem of identifying a single or definitive referent for the "Chinese body" is thornier than ever. |
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第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 43 筆
... ' provide the impetus behind this book's project. Embodied Modernities, then, presents a critical treatment of corporeality and representation in Chinese contexts in the light of recent 4 LARISSA HEINRICH AND FRAN MARTIN.
... contexts in the light of recent transformations in culture, technology, and body scholarship. Collectively, the essays gathered here offer a wide-ranging exploration of what embodiment means in the context of increasingly fractal ...
... contexts, we assume from the outset that modern categories of personhood are just that—modern.13 Categories like woman (nüxing/nüren), man (nanxing/nanren), homosexual (tongxing'ai/tongxinglian) and heterosexual (yixing'ai/yixinglian) ...
... context of China's semi-colonization by European and Japanese powers, and half a century later in the context of post-Mao cultural internationalization. In this account, a hybrid formation of Chinese modernity emerged in the Republican ...
... contexts of the critics themselves. Zito's essay deploys a cross-historical methodology that is taken up elsewhere in this book. Rather than proposing a direct causal relation between the distinct moments under discussion, this approach ...
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Part II Contemporary Embodiments | 113 |
Contemporary Taiwan | 177 |
Transnational Incorporations in Hong Kong Cinema | 218 |
Bibliography | 253 |
Filmography | 277 |
Contributors | 279 |
Index | 283 |