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- Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation, and Chinese Cultures
- Book
- 2006
- Published by: University of Hawai'i Press
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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. iii-iv
- PART I: Thresholds of Modernity
- PART II: Contemporary Embodiments
- CHAPTER 7: Introduction to Part II
- pp. 115-125
- Bibliography
- pp. 253-275
- Filmography
- pp. 277-278
- Contributors
- pp. 279-282
Additional Information
ISBN
9780824862329
Related ISBN(s)
9780824829636
MARC Record
OCLC
256467559
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No