Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation, and Chinese CulturesFran Martin, Ari Larissa Heinrich University of Hawaii Press, 2006年7月31日 - 296 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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... example, the myth of Hercules and the Freudian themes that self-consciously inform Lee's direction of the plot—the relationship between Bruce Banner and his father in Lee's film is fraught, and Lee admits to using the film to explore ...
... examples of these prior to 1949 is the history of Chinese science, and its subset medicine, epitomized in the scholarly legacy of Joseph Needham's encyclopedic research on science and technology in China. Now-classic studies by medical ...
... examples move decidedly away from the idea of regarding ''the Chinese body'' as a universally decodable object toward understanding the body as a changeable construct subject to the contingencies of culture and history. Perhaps the most ...
... example, it would be nonsensical to speak of ''Chinese women'' per se in the premodern period, when no overarching category of ''women'' existed, and female subject-positions were defined solely as kin-positions (mother, daughter, wife) ...
... example, the notorious ''sick man of Asia'' in the early twentieth century, or the spectacularly anticolonial figure of the late-twentieth-century Hong Kong action star, Bruce Lee). In all of these, body representations can be seen not ...
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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 |