Chinese Surplus Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body

In CHINESE SURPLUS Ari Heinrich dissects the figure of the medically or artistically commodified body in Chinese culture and popular science. Providing a history of how bodies have been thought and seen to mirror the nation, Heinrich charts the trajectory from an imperial idea of the body as a machi...

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Main Author: Heinrich, Ari Larissa
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham, NC Duke University Press 2018
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