Sensing China: Modern Transformations of Sensory Culture

Author:   Shengqing Wu ,  Xuelei Huang
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781032008776


Pages:   298
Publication Date:   16 August 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Shengqing Wu ,  Xuelei Huang
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.740kg
ISBN:  

9781032008776


ISBN 10:   1032008776
Pages:   298
Publication Date:   16 August 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"Chapter 1 Introduction (Shengqing Wu and Xuelei Huang) Part I Understanding the Senses in Traditional Culture Chapter 2 Aural and Visual Hierarchies: Beyond Epistemology of the Senses (Jane Geaney) Chapter 3 The Culture of Smells: Taboo and Sublimation from Huchou to Tianxiang (Paolo Santangelo) Part II Reconfiguring the Senses and Modern Sensibility Chapter 4 Smellscapes of Nanjing Road: Cognitive and Affective Mapping (Xuelei Huang) Chapter 5 The Kiss as an Art of Love: Touch, Sensuality, and Embodied Experience in Modern Chinese Culture (Shengqing Wu) Chapter 6 Radio, Sound Cinema, and Community Singing: The Making of a New Sonic Culture in Modern China (Xiaobing Tang) Part III Socialist Corporeality, Sensorium, and Memory Chapter 7 Making Sense of Labor: Works of Art and Arts of Work in China’s Great Leap Forward (Pang Laikwan) Chapter 8 Narrating Sweet Bitterness: Tasting and Sensing the Chinese Cultural Revolution (Lena Henningsen) Chapter 9 The Hot Noise of Open-Air Cinema (Jie Li) Part IV Senses, Media, and Postmodernity Chapter 10 Touching Father: Sight, Sound, Touch, and Intermedial Intimacies (Carlos Rojas) Chapter 11 The Senses in Recent Exhibitionary Practice in Chinese History Museums (Kirk Denton) Chapter 12 Epilogue: ""And suddenly the memory revealed itself….""—Making Sense of the Senses in History (Barbara Mittler)"

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Shengqing Wu is Professor of Chinese Literature at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. Xuelei Huang is Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

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