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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... period reveal key cultural transformations that have accompanied the processes of modernization. These include the translation of scientific discourses on anatomy, medicine, gender, and sexuality; the implementation of a Maoist vision ...
... period.36 The 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 ...
... period. Her observations are congruent with those made by other contributors to this section, who also find modern, scientistic, European ideas of the body blending with older local understandings of social status and ritual role to ...
... period, and that these ''repressed modernities'' return in the alternative literary modernisms of late-twentieth-century mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the Chinese diaspora. Wang, Splendor. Contrast also Shu-mei Shih's ...
... the ''transformative event that ushered in the modern period, which constituted the fragment as a positive rather than a negative trope.''5 Here Nochlin alludes to modernity's endless appetite for the new, as it. 22 ANGELA ZITO.
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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 |