Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe)

Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe)

by Ari Larissa Heinrich (Author), Ari Larissa Heinrich (Author)

Synopsis

Ari 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.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 272
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Published: 02 Mar 2018

ISBN 10: 0822370530
ISBN 13: 9780822370536