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 11 到 15 筆結果,共 92 筆
... century, which, she proposes, positions its abolition as a symbolic threshold marking modernity's nether limit. As the section title implies, all these essays focus on body cultures in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ...
... century missionary women in China, critiques of footbinding by western radical feminists in the late twentieth century, and discussions of Chinese women's bodies in present-day international and postcolonial feminisms. Zito traces a ...
... century Beijing entails a more complex scenario. They contend that as part of the nation-building project, Chinese intellectuals sought to transform local body cultures in a self-policing response to the perception of a censorious—yet ...
... century discourses of gender essentialism. As several authors explore in Part II, however, the normative force of gender as a binary, corporeal structure that appeared to gain in strength as the twentieth century progressed would emerge ...
... century. Liu, The Clash of Empires. 16. Gaonkar, ''On Alternative Modernities,'' 23. 17. Ong, ''Anthropology,'' 64. 18. See the important strand of work theorising the entanglements between gendered bodies and the project of the modern ...
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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 |