Heinrich, Ari Larissa,

Chinese Surplus Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body / Ari Larissa Heinrich. - 1 online resource (xi, 246 pages) : illustrations ; - Perverse modernities . - Perverse modernities. Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Biopolitical aesthetics and the Chinese body as surplus -- Chinese whispers: Frankenstein, the sleeping lion, and the emergence of a biopolitical aesthetics -- Souvenirs of the organ trade: the diasporic body in contemporary Chinese literature and art -- Organ economics: transplant, class, and witness from made in Hong Kong to the eye -- Still life: recovering (Chinese) ethnicity in the body worlds and beyond -- All rights preserved: intellectual property and the plastinated cadaver exhibits.

Open Access

9780822372042




Biopolitics--China.
Human figure in art.
Medicine in art.
Aesthetics, Modern--21st century.
Aesthetics--Political aspects--China.
Human body--China.
Human body (Philosophy)--China.


Electronic books.

B105.B64 / H456 2018

128/.60951