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 52 筆
... essays gathered here offer a wide-ranging exploration of what embodiment means in the context of increasingly fractal understandings of Chinese identity. The central focus of the essays is body representation, as distinct from—though in ...
... essay in that volume, ''Theorizing Woman: Funü, Guojia, Jiating,'' models especially clearly the broad conceptual framework and the historicist methodology that we have presumed as central in preparing this volume. Adopting a ...
... essays included here fall into two sections, the first addressing the Republican period and the second the contemporary.22 Many of the chapters in the first part of this book (especially Zito, Wu and Stevenson, and Epstein) are ...
... essays in the book's second section.23 By sketching out these broad cultural linkages, Embodied Modernities aims to contribute to the growing body of work exploring the genealogy of present-day Chinese experience.24 While Shih's book on ...
... Essays: Part I The essays collected in the first part of this volume, ''Thresholds of Modernity,'' share a common concern with mapping the chaotic transition between premodern and modern regimes of subjecthood and corporeality. The ...
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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 |