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 63 筆
... discuss in detail below. The thirteen essays collected here bring these questions into suggestive proximity. Facilitating new dialogues between the history of science, modern literary studies, diaspora studies, cultural anthropology ...
... the modern period, defined loosely around the twentieth century— indeed, as we discuss below, the idea of Chinese modernities is a guiding rubric for the book as a whole. As well as bringing 8 LARISSA HEINRICH AND FRAN MARTIN.
... 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 is experientially central ...
... discuss popular fiction and theater, and the focus on popular cultural forms and popular responses to other cultural forms continues through Part II. Looking to martial arts fiction rather than May Fourth classics, or to the cross ...
... discussion of the negative representation of footbinding in the late nineteenth century, which, she proposes, positions its abolition as a symbolic threshold marking modernity's nether limit. As the section title implies, all these ...
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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 |