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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... ''Chineseness'' 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.
... critical attention to the question of the body between the late nineteenth and early twenty-first centuries across the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Chinese diasporic cultures worldwide. Studies on Pre-1949 Chinese ...
... critical theories on Chinese body studies.10 They are marked by their collective approach to bodies not as transparent, stable objects of analysis, but rather as variable knowledge formations constructed through historically specific ...
... critical theory on Chinese body scholarship, then taken as a whole, this volume demonstrates the further development of post-structuralist methodologies in this field. Thematically, unlike Zito and Barlow's volume, it focuses solely on ...
... critical thematic foci for discussions of Chinese modernity and modernism, we propose that consideration of body representations offers an equally illuminating rubric through which to approach Chinese modernities. First, since the body ...
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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 |