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Introduction: Piety, Politics And Philosophy: Asia And The Global Body
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Bryan S. Turner
and Zheng Yangwen
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Figures vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Introduction: Piety, Politics And Philosophy: Asia And The Global Body 1
- 1 The Global Body Cannot Ignore Asia 23
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Part I. The Body And Religion
- 2 Saint or Serpent? Engendering the Female Body in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives 43
- 3 Creating Religious Bodies: Fasting Rituals in West Java 59
- 4 Formations of Public Piety: New Veiling, the Body, and the Citizen-Subject in Contemporary Indonesia 75
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Part II. The Body and Culture
- 5 Westernized Body or Japanized Western Body: The Desirable Female Body in Contemporary Japanese Women’s Magazines 97
- 6 Fatness and Well-Being: Bodies and the Generation Gap in Contemporary China 113
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Part III. The Body and the State
- 7 Seki Jūrōji and the Japanese Body: Martial Arts, Kokutai, and Citizen–State Relations in Meiji Japan 129
- 8 The Sacred and the Sanitary: The Colonial ‘Medicalization’ of the Filipino Body 147
- 9 State and Religious Contestations over the Body: Hook Swinging and the Production of New Human Subjects 165
- 10 Women’s Revolution Embodied in Mao Zedong Era Ballet 183
- Notes on Contributors 203
- Bibliography 207
- Index 225
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Figures vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Introduction: Piety, Politics And Philosophy: Asia And The Global Body 1
- 1 The Global Body Cannot Ignore Asia 23
-
Part I. The Body And Religion
- 2 Saint or Serpent? Engendering the Female Body in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives 43
- 3 Creating Religious Bodies: Fasting Rituals in West Java 59
- 4 Formations of Public Piety: New Veiling, the Body, and the Citizen-Subject in Contemporary Indonesia 75
-
Part II. The Body and Culture
- 5 Westernized Body or Japanized Western Body: The Desirable Female Body in Contemporary Japanese Women’s Magazines 97
- 6 Fatness and Well-Being: Bodies and the Generation Gap in Contemporary China 113
-
Part III. The Body and the State
- 7 Seki Jūrōji and the Japanese Body: Martial Arts, Kokutai, and Citizen–State Relations in Meiji Japan 129
- 8 The Sacred and the Sanitary: The Colonial ‘Medicalization’ of the Filipino Body 147
- 9 State and Religious Contestations over the Body: Hook Swinging and the Production of New Human Subjects 165
- 10 Women’s Revolution Embodied in Mao Zedong Era Ballet 183
- Notes on Contributors 203
- Bibliography 207
- Index 225