Embodied modernities corporeality, representation, and Chinese cultures

Martin, Fran, 1971- (Added Author). Heinrich, Larissa. (Added Author).

Summary: Facilitating dialogue between fields as diverse as the history of science, literary studies, diaspora studies, cultural anthropology, and contemporary Chinese film and cultural studies, this work addresses contemporary Chinese embodiments as they are represented textually and as part of everyday life practices.

Record details

ISBN: 9781435665859 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1435665856 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0824829638 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780824829636 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (vi, 290 p.) : ill.
Publisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-275) and index. Includes filmography: p. [277]-278.
Formatted Contents Note:	I. Thresholds of modernity -- Introduction to part I / Larissa Heinrich and Fran Martin -- Bound to be represented : theorizing/fetishizing footbinding / Angela Zito -- Male love lost : the fate of male same-sex prostitution in Beijing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Cuncun Wu and Mark Stevenson -- Rewriting sexual ideals in Yesou puyan / Maram Epstein -- Cross-dressed nation : Mei Lanfang and the clothing of modern Chinese men / John Zou -- The transgender body in Wang Dulu's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon / Tze-Ian D. Dang -- II. Contemporary embodiments -- Introduction to part II -- Post-Mao People's Republic of China -- Souvenirs of the organ trade : the diasporic body in contemporary Chinese literature and art / Larissa Heinrich -- Sport, fashion, and beauty : new incarnations of the female politician in contemporary China / Louise Edwards -- Sites of transformation : the body and ruins in Zhang Yang's Shower -- Contemporary Taiwan -- Stigmatic bodies : the corporeal Qiu Miaojin / Fran Martin -- Informationalized affect : the body in Taiwanese digital video puppetry and COSplay / Teri Silvio -- Transnational incorporations in Hong Kong cinema -- Stellar transit : Bruce Lee's body or Chinese masculinity in a transnational frame / Chris Berry -- Love in ruins : spectral bodies in Wong Kar-wai's In the Mode for Love / Olivia Khoo.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Action Note:	digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.