Afterlife of Images - Translating the Pathological Body Between China and the West

Informationen zum Autor Ari Larissa Heinrich Klappentext "Larissa N. Heinrich deftly weaves a range of materials--including prints, painting, photography, and literature--into a fascinating narrative of the ways visual and linguistic tropes formed and reinforced certain eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western understandings of China. Furthermore, she is attentive to the dialectics of the relationship, especially the way that Western knowledge and ways of seeing shaped certain Chinese concepts about China and its problems, especially in the latter half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth."--Stanley K. Abe, author of "Ordinary Images" Zusammenfassung An investigation of the creation and circulation of Western medical discourses linking ideas about disease to Chinese identity! beginning in the eighteenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. How China Became the "Cradle of Smallpox": Transformations in Discourse 15 2. The Pathological Body: Lam Qua's Medical Portraiture 39 3. The Pathological Empire: Early Medical Photography in China 73 4. "What's Hard for the Eye to See": Anatomical Aesthetics from Benjamin Hobson to Lu Xun 113 Epilogue: Through the Microscope 149 Notes 157 Bibliography 197 Index 213

Product details

• Authors: Ari Larissa Heinrich, Ari Larissa Heinrich Heinrich, Larissa N. Heinrich
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.02.2008
• EAN: 9780822341130
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4113-0
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Body, Commodity, Text; Body, Commodity, Text: Studies; Body, Commodity, Text; Body, Commodity, Text: Studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); China, Geschichte der Medizin