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Chinese Surplus
Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body
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Ari Larissa Heinrich
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2018
About this book
Ari Larissa Heinrich examines transnational Chinese aesthetic production—from the earliest appearance of Frankenstein in China to the more recent phenomenon of "cadaver art"— to demonstrate how representations of the medically commodified body can illuminate the effects of biopolitical violence and postcolonialism in contemporary life.
Author / Editor information
Ari Larissa Heinrich is Professor of Chinese Literature and Media at the Australian National University . He is the author of The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West, also published by Duke University Press, and coeditor of Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation, and Chinese Cultures.
Reviews
“A compelling account of how the aesthetics of corporeal politics has come to condition the rhetorics and epistemologies of life, realism, existence, authenticity, technology, reproduction, and the body itself, Chinese Surplus will forever change the way we think about the power of visual embodiment in an age of increasing angst over property/propriety rights, technological determinism, and human’s role in their imbricated historical legacy.”
-- Howard Chiang Journal of the History of Biology
"Chinese Surplus is an ambitious project that weaves together a transnational and transhistorical consideration of aesthetic production and biomedical commodification. . . . Heinrich’s project does the groundbreaking work of connecting the global power dynamics of contemporary cultural productions engaged with fragmentation and labeled inauthentic with longer histories of imperialism."
-- Kathryn Cai Catalyst
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Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Chinese Body as Surplus Open Access Download PDF |
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frankenstein, the sleeping lion, and the emergence of a biopolitical aesthetics Open Access Download PDF |
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The Diasporic Body in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Art Open Access Download PDF |
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Transplant, Class, and Witness from Made in Hong Kong to The Eye Open Access Download PDF |
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Recovering (Chinese) Ethnicity in the Body Worlds and Beyond Open Access Download PDF |
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Intellectual Property and the Plastinated Cadaver Exhibits Open Access Download PDF |
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
March 5, 2018
eBook ISBN:
9781478091035
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
264
Other:
26 illustrations
eBook ISBN:
9781478091035
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
Creative Commons
BY-NC-ND 4.0
