Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics And The Medically Commodified Body (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited By Jack Halberstam And Lisa Lowe) - 9780822370413

Ari Larissa Heinrich examines transnational Chinese aesthetic production--from the earliest appearance of Frankenstein in China to the more recent phenomenon of "cadaver art"-- to demonstrate how representations of the medically commodified body can illuminate the effects of biopolitical violence and postcolonialism in contemporary life.

• | Author: Ari Larissa Heinrich
• | Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• | Publication Date: Mar 02, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 264 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Art
• | ISBN-10: 0822370417
• | ISBN-13: 9780822370413