Chinese Surplus : Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body /

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heinrich, Ari Larissa (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Medicine in art.
Human figure in art.
Human body (Philosophy)
Human body.
Biopolitics.
Aesthetics > Political aspects.
Aesthetics, Modern.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
Biopolitique > Chine.
Corps humain dans l'art.
Medecine dans l'art.
Esthetique > 21e siecle.
Corps humain > Chine.
Corps humain (Philosophie) > Chine.
Biopolitics > China.
Aesthetics, Modern > 21st century.
Aesthetics > Political aspects > China.
Human body > China.
Human body (Philosophy) > China.
China.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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