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Embodied modernities : corporeality, representation, and Chinese cultures

Fran Martin (Editor), Larissa Heinrich (Editor)
Facilitating dialogue between fields as diverse as the history of science, literary studies, diaspora studies, cultural anthropology, and contemporary Chinese film and cultural studies, this work addresses contemporary Chinese embodiments as they are represented textually and as part of everyday life practices
eBook, English, ©2006
University of Hawaiʻi Press, Honolulu, ©2006
Aufsatzsammlung
1 online resource (vi, 290 pages) : illustrations
9781435665859, 9780824862329, 1435665856, 0824862325
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I. Thresholds of modernity
Introduction to part I / Larissa Heinrich and Fran Martin
Bound to be represented : theorizing/fetishizing footbinding / Angela Zito
Male love lost : the fate of male same-sex prostitution in Beijing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Cuncun Wu and Mark Stevenson
Rewriting sexual ideals in Yesou puyan / Maram Epstein
Cross-dressed nation : Mei Lanfang and the clothing of modern Chinese men / John Zou
The transgender body in Wang Dulu's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon / Tze-Ian D. Dang
II. Contemporary embodiments
Introduction to part II
Post-Mao People's Republic of China
Souvenirs of the organ trade : the diasporic body in contemporary Chinese literature and art / Larissa Heinrich
Sport, fashion, and beauty : new incarnations of the female politician in contemporary China / Louise Edwards
Sites of transformation : the body and ruins in Zhang Yang's Shower
Contemporary Taiwan
Stigmatic bodies : the corporeal Qiu Miaojin / Fran Martin
Informationalized affect : the body in Taiwanese digital video puppetry and COSplay / Teri Silvio
Transnational incorporations in Hong Kong cinema
Stellar transit : Bruce Lee's body or Chinese masculinity in a transnational frame / Chris Berry
Love in ruins : spectral bodies in Wong Kar-wai's In the Mode for Love / Olivia Khoo
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
In English