The Afterlife of Images : Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West PDF
by Heinrich Ari Larissa Heinrich
Part of the Body, Commodity, Text series
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Combining literary studies, the history of science, and visual culture studies, Heinrich analyzes the rhetoric and iconography through which medical missionaries transmitted to the West an image of China as "sick" or "diseased." He also examines the absorption of that image back into China through missionary activity, through the earliest translations of Western medical texts into Chinese, and even through the literature of Chinese nationalism. Heinrich argues that over time "scientific" Western representations of the Chinese body and culture accumulated a host of secondary meanings, taking on an afterlife with lasting consequences for conceptions of Chinese identity in China and beyond its borders.
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- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:20/02/2008
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- ISBN:9780822388821
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:20/02/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780822388821