{"product_id":"body-subject-power-in-china-9780226987262","title":"Body Subject  Power in China","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  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","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400155439447,"sku":"9780226987262","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/body-subject-power-in-china-9780226987262","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}