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1 online resource (xxv, 257 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)

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Contents

Half Title -- Full Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Section I Body Discourses in Chinese Philosophy -- 1 Contemporary Feminist Body Theories And Mencius' Ideas Of Body And Mind -- 2 Chinese Philosophy And The Suggestion of A Matriarchal Aesthetics -- 3 Reclaiming The Body: Francis Bacon's fugitive Bodies And Confucian Aesthetics on Bodily Expression -- Section II Body Aesthetics And Art -- 4 Discourses On Female Bodily Aesthetics And Their Early Revelations In The Book Of Songs -- 5 Reflections On Traditional Chinese Women's Embroidery: The Subject Of Bodily Expression, Gender Identity, And Fashion -- 6 Kissing In Chinese Culture -- 7 Extreme Expression And History Trauma In Women's Body Art In China: the Case Of He Chengyao -- 8 Notes On A Chinese Garden: Comparative Responses To Arnold Berleant 's environmental Aesthetics -- Section III Body And Gender Matters -- 9 Female Bodily Aesthetics, Politics, And Feminine Ideals Of Beauty In Chinese Traditions -- 10 Beauty And The State: Literati Fantasy, Iron Girls, And The Olympics Hoopla -- 11 Psychoanalysis And Women's Physiology and Psychopathology In Feudal China:a Case Study By Pan Guangdan -- 12 Fashioning Body: Hong Kong Chinese Women, Fashion, And Identity Issues Of The Sixties -- 13 Sex And Emotion : The Representation Of Chinese Female Sex Workers In Recent Discourses And The Cosmopolitan Context -- Appendix Images -- List Of Permissions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Summary

"China 1760-1774 Novel translated from the German"-- Provided by publisher

"In 1915, fourteen years before Berlin Alexanderplatz, Alfred Doblin published his first novel, an amazing, extensively researched Chinese historical extravaganza: The Three Leaps of Wang Lun. Even more remarkably, given its subject matter, the book was written in expressionist style and is now considered the first modern German novel, as well as the first Western novel to depict a China untouched by the West. Based on actual accounts of a doomed rebellion during the reign of Emperor Qianlong in the late eighteenth century, the novel tells the story of Wang Lun, a historical martial arts master and charismatic leader of the White Lotus sect, who leads a futile revolt of the "Truly Powerless." Densely packed cities and Tibetan wastes, political intrigue and religious yearning, imperial court life and the fate of wandering outcasts are depicted in a language of enormous vigor and matchless imagination, unfolding the theme of timidity against force and a mystical sense of the world against the realities of power"-- Provided by publisher

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Subject

Wang, Lun, -1774 -- Fiction.

Feminist theory -- China.

Philosophy, Confucian.

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)

Human body (Philosophy)

Théorie féministe -- Chine.

Philosophie confucéenne.

Beauté féminine (Esthétique)

Corps humain (Philosophie)

PHILOSOPHY -- Eastern.

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) (OCoLC)fst00922652

Feminist theory. (OCoLC)fst00922816

Human body (Philosophy) (OCoLC)fst01730063

Philosophy, Confucian. (OCoLC)fst01060930

China. (OCoLC)fst01206073

Genre/Form

Electronic books.

Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787

History. (OCoLC)fst01411628

Historical fiction.

Biographical fiction.

Other Form:

Print version: Wen, Jiehua. Bodies in China. [Albany, New York] : State University of New York Press ; [Hong Kong] : The Chinese University Press, [2016] 9781438466354 (DLC) 2016954465 (OCoLC)969828806

ISBN

9789629968670

9629968673

9781438466354 (SUNY hardback)

1438466358 (SUNY hardback)

9789629967857 (Chinese University)

9629967855 (Chinese University)