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Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics : Studies in Literature and Visual Culture by Sheldon H Lu; University of Hawaii Press is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This ambitious work is a multimedia, interdisciplinary study of Chinese modernity in the context of globalization from the late nineteenth century to the present. Sheldon Lu draws on Chinese literature, film, art, photography, and video to broadly map the emergence of modern China in relation to the capitalist world-system in the economic, social, and political realms. Central to his study is the investigation of biopower and body politics, namely, the experience of globalization on a personal level.Lu first outlines the trajectory of the body in modern Chinese literature by focusing on the adventures, pleasures, and sufferings of the male (and female) body in the writings of selected authors. He then turns to avant-garde and performance art, tackling the physical self more directly through a consideration of work that takes the body as its very theme, material, and medium. In an exploration of mass visual culture, Lu analyzes artistic reactions to the multiple, uneven effects of globalization and modernization on both the physical landscape of China and the interior psyche of its citizens. This is followed by an investigation of contemporary Chines

Who reads Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics : Studies in Literature and Visual Culture?

Author

Sheldon H Lu; University of Hawaii Press

Publisher

University of Hawai'i Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780824831776

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, Literary Criticism