The Naked Gaze: Reflections on Chinese Modernity
(Book #308 in the Harvard East Asian Monographs Series)
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This is a study of visuality in early modern and modern China. Its focus, however, is not so much on imagery per se but rather on how vision itself has been conceived, imagined, and deployed in a variety of discursive contexts. Of particular interest is how these discourses of vision have been used to articulate issues of gender and desire, and specifically processes of gendered subject formation. Through detailed readings of narrative works by eight...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0674031741
ISBN13:9780674031746
Release Date:January 2009
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:350 Pages
Weight:1.45 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 6.3" x 9.0"
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