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 58 筆
... practices are clearly crucial to approaching a full understanding of what bodies mean in Chinese contexts. However, rather than conceiving of body representations and body practices as two discrete realms, we assume that to a large ...
... practice. Charlotte Furth's work on childbirth, ''the growing body,'' and blood in Chinese medicine, as well as her ... practices from one or the other tradition so much as a practical understanding of the distinctive ways in which these ...
... practice. Republican Culture as an Alternative Modernity If a primary aim of this book is to rethink Chinese body politics in the light of recent developments in both body scholarship and body cultures, this general project is focused ...
... practices in cultural and historical context, can be interpreted as symptomatic of Chinese modernities. Over recent years ... practice rather than the top-down effects of large-scale institutional structures.19 Shu-mei Shih identifies a ...
... practices, and the transnational projections of Hong Kong cinema. As a whole, then, the book demonstrates how changing trends in the public representation of both privileged and marginalized bodies encode many of the broader ...
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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 |