Sensing China (eBook, ePUB)

Modern Transformations of Sensory Culture
Redaktion: Wu, Shengqing; Huang, Xuelei

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents the first collection of studies of the senses and sensory experiences in China, filling a gap in sensory research while offering new approaches to Chinese Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000626971
• Artikelnr.: 64236340

Autorenporträt

Shengqing Wu is Professor of Chinese Literature at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. Xuelei Huang is Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction (Shengqing Wu and Xuelei Huang)
Part I Understanding the Senses in Traditional Culture
Chapter 2 Aural and Visual Hierarchies: Beyond Epistemology of the Senses
(Jane Geaney)
Chapter 3 The Culture of Smells: Taboo and Sublimation from Huchou to
Tianxiang (Paolo Santangelo)
Part II Reconfiguring the Senses and Modern Sensibility
Chapter 4 Smellscapes of Nanjing Road: Cognitive and Affective Mapping
(Xuelei Huang)
Chapter 5 The Kiss as an Art of Love: Touch, Sensuality, and Embodied
Experience in Modern Chinese Culture (Shengqing Wu)
Chapter 6 Radio, Sound Cinema, and Community Singing: The Making of a New
Sonic Culture in Modern China (Xiaobing Tang)
Part III Socialist Corporeality, Sensorium, and Memory
Chapter 7 Making Sense of Labor: Works of Art and Arts of Work in China's
Great Leap Forward (Pang Laikwan)
Chapter 8 Narrating Sweet Bitterness: Tasting and Sensing the Chinese
Cultural Revolution (Lena Henningsen)
Chapter 9 The Hot Noise of Open-Air Cinema (Jie Li)
Part IV Senses, Media, and Postmodernity
Chapter 10 Touching Father: Sight, Sound, Touch, and Intermedial Intimacies
(Carlos Rojas)
Chapter 11 The Senses in Recent Exhibitionary Practice in Chinese History
Museums (Kirk Denton)
Chapter 12 Epilogue: "And suddenly the memory revealed itself...."-Making
Sense of the Senses in History (Barbara Mittler)