Heinrich / Appadurai / Farquhar The Afterlife of Images

Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8882-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

Reihe: Body, Commodity, Text

An investigation of the creation and circulation of Western medical discourses linking ideas about disease to Chinese identity, beginning in the eighteenth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heinrich, Ari Larissa

Appadurai, Arjun

Farquhar, Judith

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 1

1. How China Became the "Cradle of Smallpox": Transformations in Discourse 15

2. The Pathological Body: Lam Qua's Medical Portraiture 39

3. The Pathological Empire: Early Medical Photography in China 73

4. "What's Hard for the Eye to See": Anatomical Aesthetics from Benjamin Hobson to Lu Xun 113

Epilogue: Through the Microscope 149

Notes 157

Bibliography 197

Index 213

Über Autor(innen)

Ari Larissa Heinrich is Professor of Chinese Literature and Media at the Australian National University. He is the author of Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body, also published by Duke University Press, and coeditor of Embodied Modernities: Corporeality and Representation in Chinese Cultures.