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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Autore principale: Heinrich, Ari Larissa (Autore)
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
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Sommario:
  • 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.