Embodied modernities : corporeality, representation, and Chinese cultures / edited by Fran Martin and Larissa Heinrich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martin, Fran, 1971-

Heinrich, Larissa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body--Social aspects--China.

Human body.

Human body--Social aspects--Asia.

Sex role--China.

Sex role.

Sex role--Asia.

Human body in popular culture.

Human body in motion pictures.

Culture in motion pictures.

China--Social life and customs.

China.

Asia--Social life and customs.

Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.By facilitating fresh dialogue between fields as diverse as the history of science, literary studies, diaspora studies, cultural anthropology, and contemporary Chinese film and cultural studies, Embodied Modernities addresses contemporary Chinese embodiments as they are represented textually and as part of everyday life practices. The book is divided into two sections, each with a dedicated introduction by the editors. The first examines "Thresholds of Modernity" in chapters on Chinese body cultures in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-a period of intensive cultural, political, and social modernization that led to a series of radical transformations in how bodies were understood and represented.The second section on "Contemporary Embodiments" explores body representations across the People's Republic of China,Taiwan, and Hong Kong today. Contributors: Chris Berry, Louise Edwards, Maram Epstein, Larissa Heinrich, Olivia Khoo, Fran Martin, Jami Proctor-Xu, Tze-lan D. Sang, Teri Silvio, Mark Stevenson, Cuncun Wu, Angela Zito, John Zou.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Notes And Acknowledgments

Part I. Thresholds Of Modernity

Chapter 1 Introduction To Part I / Heinrich, Larissa / Martin, Fran

Chapter 2 Bound To Be Represented Theorizing / Fetishizing Footbinding / Zito, Angela

Chapter 3. Male Love Lost The Fate Of Male Same-Sex Prostitution In Beijing In The Late Nineteenth And Early Twentieth Centuries / Wu, Cuncun / Stevenson, Mark

Chapter 4. Rewriting Sexual Ideals In Yesou Puyan / Epstein, Maram

Chapter 5. Cross-Dressed Nation Mei Lanfang And The Clothing Of Modern Chinese Men / Zou, John

Chapter 6. The Transgender Body In Wang Dulu'S Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon / Sang, Tze-Lan D.

Part II. Contemporary Embodiments

Chapter 7. Introduction To Part II / Heinrich, Larissa / Martin, Fran

Chapter 8. Souvenirs Of The Organ Trade The Diasporic Body In Contemporary Chinese Literature And Art / Heinrich, Larissa

Chapter 9. Sport, Fashion, And Beauty New Incarnations Of The Female Politician In Contemporary China / Edwards, Louise

Chapter 10. Sites Of Transformation The Body And Ruins In Zhang Yang'S Shower / Proctor-Xu, Jami

Chapter 11. Stigmatic Bodies The Corporeal Qiu Miaojin / Martin, Fran

Chapter 12. Informationalized Affect The Body In Taiwanese Digital Video Puppetry And Cosplay / Silvio, Teri

Chapter 13. Stellar Transit Bruce Lee'S Body Or Chinese Masculinity In A Transnational Frame / Berry, Chris

Chapter 14. Love In Ruins Spectral Bodies Inwong Kar-Wai'S In The Mood For Love / Khoo, Olivia

Bibliography

Filmography

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-275) and index.

Includes filmography: p. [277]-278.

ISBN:

9780824862329

0824862325

9781435665859

1435665856

OCLC:

256467559