For the first time, this volume brings to the study of China the theoretical concerns and methods of contemporary critical cultural studies. Written by historians, art historians, anthropologists, and literary critics who came of age after the People's Republic resumed scholarly ties with the United States, these essays yield valuable new insights not only for China studies but...
For the first time, this volume brings to the study of China the theoretical concerns and methods of contemporary critical cultural studies. Written by historians, art historians, anthropologists, and literary critics who came of age after the People's Republic resumed scholarly ties with the United States, these essays yield valuable new insights not only for China studies but also, by extension, for non-Asian cultural criticism.
Contributors investigate problems of bodiliness, engendered subjectivities, and discourses of power through a variety of sources that include written texts, paintings, buildings, interviews, and observations. Taken together, the essays show that bodies in China have been classified, represented, discussed, ritualized, gendered, and eroticized in ways as rich and multiple as those described in critical histories of the West. Silk robes, rocks, winds, gestures of bowing, yin yang hierarchies, and cross-dressing have helped create experiences of the body specific to Chinese historical life. By pointing to multiple examples of reimagining subjectivity and renegotiating power, the essays encourage scholars to avoid making broad generalizations about China and to rethink traditional notions of power, subject, and bodiliness in light of actual Chinese practices. Body, Subject, and Power in China is at once an example of the changing face of China studies and a work of importance to the entire discipline of cultural studies.
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pp. 149-50 in Chapter 5 The Politicized Body (pp. 131-56) by Ann Anagnost
The realist novel instills an effect of the real within a fictional space, and it does this through the individualization of its characters based on the kinds of knowledge that are coextensive with a particular economy of power--what Foucault calls biopower that constructs an interiority. The socialist realist text, it seems to me, operates according to a quite different principle. It projects a utopian fiction onto the space of lived society, and it does this not through the individualization of its characters, but through a different operation. It classifies its characters into coded positions, representations that are moral exemplars, clusters of signs that must be made visible in order to circulate throughout the... (查看原文)
..If we assume that power is embedded within social life and not outside it, merely waiting to be mobilized as violence or coercion we must then recognize that fundamental modes of creating and ordering are implicated in social inequities and imbalances. We are forced to notice uneasily that the most powerful coercion of all lies with the innocuous constitution of reality, which helps people every day to forget the contingency of their experience and to live life as necessity. (查看原文)
0 有用 話有不言齋主人 2022-08-28 23:41:48 黑龙江
年代感十足的一本书，非常的结构主义，序的文笔不错阿巴阿巴。讲针灸的一头雾水；马克梦那篇清代才子佳人小说中的性别（拟男）、“情”真的是非常好看。马克梦的书到底什么时候能翻译一下（除了天女临凡...）？
0 有用 豆友1485565 2013-03-26 08:38:28
翻了前三章，第三章讲中医针灸与body的关系啥的，完全不懂。。。。。囧
0 有用 间田枳子 2020-11-02 04:22:42
reproductive service as the foundation of human identity, 扎心.
0 有用 一颗柠檬水儿 2025-07-23 23:11:55 湖北
Intro喝冯珠娣那章。
1 有用 dldldl 2013-04-27 11:37:39
T. Barlow的最后一章令人失望，类似上下五千年妇女史的感觉。倒是L. Liu的章节写的不错，虽然是textual analysis, 但对national identity, patriarchal norms, gender identity在CPC政治背景下的分析还是不错的