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Author:   Eva Kit Wah Man
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9781438466354

ISBN 10:   1438466358
Pages:   282
Publication Date:   01 June 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Body Discourses in Chinese Philosophy 1. Contemporary Feminist Body Theories and Mencius' Ideas of Body and Mind 2. Chinese Philosophy and the Suggestion of a Matriarchal Aesthetics 3. Reclaiming the Body: Francis Bacon's Fugitive Bodies and Confucian Aesthetics on Bodily Expression Part II. Body Aesthetics and Art 4. Discourses on Female Bodily Aesthetics and Their Early Revelations in The Book of Songs 5. Reflections on Traditional Chinese Women's Embroidery: The Subject of Bodily Expression, Gender Identity, and Fashion 6. Kissing in Chinese Culture 7. Expression Extreme and History Trauma in Women's Body Art in China: The Case of He Chengyao 8. Notes on a Chinese Garden: Comparative Responses to Arnold Berleant's Environmental Aesthetics Part III. Body and Gender Matters 9. Female Bodily Aesthetics, Politics, and Feminine Ideals of Beauty in Chinese Traditions 10. Beauty and the State: Literati Fantasy, Iron Girls, and the Olympics Hoopla 11. Psychoanalysis and Women's Physiology and Psychopathology in Feudal China: A Case Study by Pan Guangdan 12. Fashioning Body: Hong Kong Chinese Women, Fashion, and Identity Issues of the Sixties 13. Sex and Emotion: The Representation of Chinese Female Sex Workers in Recent Discourses and the Cosmopolitan Context Appendix: Images List of Permissions Notes Bibliography Index

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This is a highly interdisciplinary work that deals with the issues from philosophical, historical, literary, cinematic, and post-colonial perspectives. Bodies in China explores a wide range of subjects seldom studied in comparative philosophy and Chinese feminist thought. First, it takes female bodies in Chinese context as the foci to discuss a different conceptual model for replacing a Cartesian dualistic model; secondly, it offers a variety of interesting materials, sources, and cases studies as cross-references to build up the ground for a further study of traditional value and contemporary practice; and thirdly, it has engaged Chinese philosophy as a critical intervention to reframe existing scholarship in different gender issues and aesthetics. - Robin R. Wang, Loyola Marymount University

"""This is a highly interdisciplinary work that deals with the issues from philosophical, historical, literary, cinematic, and post-colonial perspectives. Bodies in China explores a wide range of subjects seldom studied in comparative philosophy and Chinese feminist thought. First, it takes female bodies in Chinese context as the foci to discuss a different conceptual model for replacing a Cartesian dualistic model; secondly, it offers a variety of interesting materials, sources, and cases studies as cross-references to build up the ground for a further study of traditional value and contemporary practice; and thirdly, it has engaged Chinese philosophy as a critical intervention to reframe existing scholarship in different gender issues and aesthetics."" - Robin R. Wang, Loyola Marymount University"

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Eva Kit Wah Man is Professor of Humanities and Creative Writing at Hong Kong Baptist University. She publishes widely in comparative aesthetics, feminist philosophy, cultural studies, art, and cultural criticism. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and was named the AMUW Woman Chair by Marquette University.

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