Introduction: Piety, Politics And Philosophy: Asia And The Global Body

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction: Piety, Politics And Philosophy: Asia And The Global Body 1
6. 1 The Global Body Cannot Ignore Asia 23
7. Part I. The Body And Religion
8. 2 Saint or Serpent? Engendering the Female Body in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives 43
9. 3 Creating Religious Bodies: Fasting Rituals in West Java 59
10. 4 Formations of Public Piety: New Veiling, the Body, and the Citizen-Subject in Contemporary Indonesia 75
11. Part II. The Body and Culture
12. 5 Westernized Body or Japanized Western Body: The Desirable Female Body in Contemporary Japanese Women’s Magazines 97
13. 6 Fatness and Well-Being: Bodies and the Generation Gap in Contemporary China 113
14. Part III. The Body and the State
15. 7 Seki Jūrōji and the Japanese Body: Martial Arts, Kokutai, and Citizen–State Relations in Meiji Japan 129
16. 8 The Sacred and the Sanitary: The Colonial ‘Medicalization’ of the Filipino Body 147
17. 9 State and Religious Contestations over the Body: Hook Swinging and the Production of New Human Subjects 165
18. 10 Women’s Revolution Embodied in Mao Zedong Era Ballet 183
19. Notes on Contributors 203
20. Bibliography 207
21. Index 225