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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... Footbinding ANGELA ZITO A specimen of a Chinese foot, the account of which I have the honor to lay before the Royal Society, was removed from the dead body of a female found floating in the river at Canton. . . . Without entering into ...
... footbinding? Both easily reduce and dismiss living context, while the body itself appears in pieces. To better understand this rhetoric, we turn to a third example of footly fragmentation: the famous drawing by Henry Fuseli, Artist ...
... Footbinding in China provides an excellent example of ''embodied subjectification.'' Young girls were slowly ''invited'' to take up the subject position (to act and speak in the role) of sexually mature women through the painful process ...
... footbinding as a western feminist fetish, and recent moments in the intercultural analysis of corporeality. It is my contention that footbinding (and its demise as imagined) not only marks corporeal modernity in China, but remains also ...
... footbinding seem often to have missed the point.18 From the beginnings of the final critique of footbinding in the late nineteenth century, reformers often slighted the fact that these were female bodies in pain (the substitution of 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 |