Ari Larissa Heinrich

The Afterlife of Images

Translating the Pathological Body Between China and the West

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An investigation of the creation and circulation of Western medical discourses linking ideas about disease to Chinese identity, beginning in the eighteenth century.

Produktdetails

• Body, Commodity, Text
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 234mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9780822340935
• ISBN-10: 0822340933
• Artikelnr.: 23370037

Autorenporträt

Ari Larissa Heinrich

Inhaltsangabe

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