Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body

(Part of the Perverse Modernities Series)

by Ari Larissa Heinrich

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What happens when the body becomes art in the age of biotechnological reproduction? In Chinese Surplus Ari Larissa Heinrich examines transnational Chinese aesthetic production to demonstrate how representations of the medically commodified body can illuminate the effects of biopolitical violence and postcolonialism in contemporary life. From the earliest appearance of Frankenstein in China to the more recent phenomenon of "cadaver art," he...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822370530

ISBN13:9780822370536

Release Date:March 2018

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:264 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"

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Art Arts, Music & Photography History Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology

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