<p>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
Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation, And Chinese Cultures
β Scribed by Fran Martin, Larissa Heinrich
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