{"product_id":"chinese-surplus-9780822370536","title":"Chinese Surplus","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAri Larissa Heinrich examines transnational Chinese aesthetic production—from the earliest appearance of Frankenstein in China to the more recent phenomenon of \"cadaver art\"— to demonstrate how representations of the medically commodified body can illuminate the effects of biopolitical violence and postcolonialism in contemporary life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A compelling account of how the aesthetics of corporeal politics has come to condition the rhetorics and epistemologies of life, realism, existence, authenticity, technology, reproduction, and the body itself, \u003ci\u003eChinese Surplus\u003c\/i\u003e will forever change the way we think about the power of visual embodiment in an age of increasing angst over property\/propriety rights, technological determinism, and human’s role in their imbricated historical legacy.” -- Howard Chiang * Journal of the History of Biology *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eChinese Surplus\u003c\/i\u003e is an ambitious project that weaves together a transnational and transhistorical consideration of aesthetic production and biomedical commodification. . . . Heinrich’s project does the groundbreaking work of connecting the global power dynamics of contemporary cultural productions engaged with fragmentation and labeled inauthentic with longer histories of imperialism.\" -- Kathryn Cai * Catalyst *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Chinese Body as Surplus  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Chinese Whispers: Frankenstein, the Sleeping Lion, and the Emergence of a Biopolitical Aesthetics  25\u003cbr\u003e 2. Souvenirs of the Organ Trade: The Diasporic Body in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Art  49\u003cbr\u003e 3. Organ Economics: Transplant, Class, and Witness from \u003ci\u003eMade in Hong Kong\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eThe Eye\u003c\/i\u003e  83\u003cbr\u003e 4. Still Life: Recovering (Chinese) Ethnicity in the \u003ci\u003eBody Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e and Beyond  115\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. All Rights Preserved: Intellectual Property and the Plastinated Cadaver Exhibits  139\u003cbr\u003e Notes  159\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  227\u003cbr\u003e Index  239","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406108860759,"sku":"9780822370536","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822370536.jpg?v=1730494564","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/chinese-surplus-9780822370536","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}