Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation, and Chinese Cultures

✍ Scribed by Fran Martin (editor); Ari Larissa Heinrich (editor)

• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 300
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

From feminist philosophy to genetic science, scholarship in recent years has succeeded in challenging many entrenched assumptions about the material and biological status of human bodies. Likewise in the study of Chinese cultures, accelerating globalization and the resultant hybridity have called into question previous assumptions about the boundaries of Chinese national and ethnic identity. The problem of identifying a single or definitive referent for the "Chinese body" is thornier than ever.

By facilitating fresh dialogue between fields as diverse as the history of science, literary studies, diaspora studies, cultural anthropology, and contemporary Chinese film and cultural studies, Embodied Modernities addresses contemporary Chinese embodiments as they are represented textually and as part of everyday life practices. The book is divided into two sections, each with a dedicated introduction by the editors. The first examines "Thresholds of Modernity" in chapters on Chinese body cultures in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—a period of intensive cultural, political, and social modernization that led to a series of radical transformations in how bodies were understood and represented.The second section on "Contemporary Embodiments" explores body representations across the People’s Republic of China,Taiwan, and Hong Kong today.

Contributors: Chris Berry, Louise Edwards, Maram Epstein, Larissa Heinrich, Olivia Khoo, Fran Martin, Jami Proctor-Xu, Tze-lan D. Sang, Teri Silvio, Mark Stevenson, Cuncun Wu, Angela Zito, John Zou.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Notes And Acknowledgments
Part I. Thresholds Of Modernity
Chapter 1 Introduction To Part I
Chapter 2 Bound To Be Represented Theorizing / Fetishizing Footbinding
Chapter 3. Male Love Lost The Fate Of Male Same-Sex Prostitution In Beijing In The Late Nineteenth And Early Twentieth Centuries
Chapter 4. Rewriting Sexual Ideals In Yesou Puyan
Chapter 5. Cross-Dressed Nation Mei Lanfang And The Clothing Of Modern Chinese Men
Chapter 6. The Transgender Body In Wang Dulu’S Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Part II. Contemporary Embodiments
Chapter 7. Introduction To Part II
Chapter 8. Souvenirs Of The Organ Trade The Diasporic Body In Contemporary Chinese Literature And Art
Chapter 9. Sport, Fashion, And Beauty New Incarnations Of The Female Politician In Contemporary China
Chapter 10. Sites Of Transformation The Body And Ruins In Zhang Yang’S Shower
Chapter 11. Stigmatic Bodies The Corporeal Qiu Miaojin
Chapter 12. Informationalized Affect The Body In Taiwanese Digital Video Puppetry And Cosplay
Chapter 13. Stellar Transit Bruce Lee’S Body Or Chinese Masculinity In A Transnational Frame
Chapter 14. Love In Ruins Spectral Bodies Inwong Kar-Wai’S In The Mood For Love
Bibliography
Filmography
Contributors
Index