Chinese surplus : : biopolitical aesthetics and the medically commodified body / / Ari Larissa Heinrich.
In CHINESE SURPLUS Ari Heinrich dissects the figure of the medically or artistically commodified body in Chinese culture and popular science. Providing a history of how bodies have been thought and seen to mirror the nation, Heinrich charts the trajectory from an imperial idea of the body as a machi...
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| Superior document: | Perverse modernities |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Perverse modernities.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (252 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Biopolitical aesthetics and the Chinese body as surplus
- Chinese whispers: Frankenstein, the sleeping lion, and the emergence of a biopolitical aesthetics
- Souvenirs of the organ trade: the diasporic body in contemporary Chinese literature and art
- Organ economics: transplant, class, and witness from made in Hong Kong to the eye
- Still life: recovering (Chinese) ethnicity in the body worlds and beyond
- All rights preserved: intellectual property and the plastinated cadaver exhibits.