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Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation , And Chinese Cultures
by Martin, Fran; Larissa Heinrich (Eds.)
About This Book
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 globalisation and the resultant hybridity have called into question previous assumptions about the boundaries of Chinese national and ethnic identity.
This book draws from studies of the history of science and cultural anthropology as well as literary, diaspora, cultural and Chinese film studies, to address the issue of contemporary Chinese embodiments in texts and in everyday life. The first section of the book looks at Chinese body cultures in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The second section explores Chinese body representations across China, Taiwan and Hong Kong today. With black-and-white illustrations, bibliography and index.
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