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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2018]
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| Edition: | [Open access version]. |
| Series: | Perverse modernities.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
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.
