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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Autor principal: Heinrich, Ari Larissa (Autor)
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
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