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

Informationen zum Autor Ari Larissa Heinrich Klappentext Traces the development of Western medical rhetoric, visual art, and iconography that linked ideas about disease to Chinese identity at the onset of modernity. 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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Heinrich, Ari Larissa Heinrich, Larissa Heinrich, Larissa N. Heinrich, Larissa N. Heinrich
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 20.02.2008
• EAN: 9780822340935
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4093-5
• Pagine: 248
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Serie: Body, Commodity, Text; Body, Commodity, Text: Studies; Body, Commodity, Text; Body, Commodity, Text: Studies
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Storia dell'arte