Ari Larissa Heinrich

Chinese Surplus

Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780822370413
• ISBN-10: 0822370417
• Artikelnr.: 47866018

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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