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Body, Subject, and Power in China (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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Body, Subject, and Power in China (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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For the first time, this volume brings to the study of China the
theoretical concerns and methods of contemporary critical cultural
studies. Written by historians, art historians, anthropologists,
and literary critics who came of age after the People's Republic
resumed scholarly ties with the United States, these essays yield
valuable new insights not only for China studies but also, by
extension, for non-Asian cultural criticism.
Contributors investigate problems of bodiliness, engendered
subjectivities, and discourses of power through a variety of
sources that include written texts, paintings, buildings,
interviews, and observations. Taken together, the essays show that
bodies in China have been classified, represented, discussed,
ritualized, gendered, and eroticized in ways as rich and multiple
as those described in critical histories of the West. Silk robes,
rocks, winds, gestures of bowing, yin yang hierarchies, and
cross-dressing have helped create experiences of the body specific
to Chinese historical life. By pointing to multiple examples of
reimagining subjectivity and renegotiating power, the essays
encourage scholars to avoid making broad generalizations about
China and to rethink traditional notions of power, subject, and
bodiliness in light of actual Chinese practices. "Body, Subject,
and Power in China" is at once an example of the changing face of
China studies and a work of importance to the entire discipline of
cultural studies.
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