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Book SynopsisThis volume brings to the study of China the theoretical concerns and methods of contemporary critical cultural studies. Contributors investigate problems of bodiliness, engendered subjectivities and discourses of power through written texts, paintings, buildings, interviews and observations.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Body, Subject, and Power in China Angela Zito, Tani E. Barlow. 1: The Imagination of Winds and the Development of the Chinese Conception of the Body Shigehisa Kuriyama 2: The Body Invisible in Chinese Art? John Hay 3: Multiplicity, Point of View, and Responsibility in Traditional Chinese Healing Judith Farquhar 4: Silk and Skin: Significant Boundaries Angela Zito 5: The Politicized Body Ann Anagnost 6: The Female Body and Nationalist Discourse: Manchuria in Xiao Hong's Field of Life and Death Lydia H. Liu 7: Sovereignty and Subject: Constituting Relationships of Power in Qing Guest Ritual James L. Hevia 8: (Re)inventing Li: Koutou and Subjectification in Rural Shandong Andrew Kipnis 9: The Classic "Beauty-Scholar" Romance and the Superiority of the Talented Woman Keith McMahon 10: Theorizing Woman: Funu, Guojia, Jiating Tani E. Barlow Glossary of Chinese Characters List of Contributors Index
