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