Chinese Surplus - Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Ari Larissa Heinrich teaches in the Literature Department at the University of California, San Diego. 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments  ix Introduction. Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Chinese Body as Surplus  1 1. Chinese Whispers: Frankenstein, the Sleeping Lion, and the Emergence of a Biopolitical Aesthetics  25 2. Souvenirs of the Organ Trade: The Diasporic Body in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Art  49 3. Organ Economics: Transplant, Class, and Witness from Made in Hong Kong to The Eye  83 4. Still Life: Recovering (Chinese) Ethnicity in the Body Worlds and Beyond  115 Epilogue. All Rights Preserved: Intellectual Property and the Plastinated Cadaver Exhibits  139 Notes  159 Bibliography  227 Index  239

Product details

• Authors: Ari Larissa Heinrich, Ari Larissa/ Halberstam Heinrich
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780822370413
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-7041-3
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities: A Series; Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities: A Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Antiques; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Labour, economic and industrial sociology