TY - BOOK AU - Heinrich,Ari Larissa ED - Project Muse. TI - Chinese Surplus : : Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body / T2 - Perverse modernities SN - 9780822372042 PY - 2018/// CY - Durham PB - Duke University Press KW - Medicine in art KW - fast KW - Human figure in art KW - Human body (Philosophy) KW - Human body KW - Biopolitics KW - Aesthetics KW - Political aspects KW - Aesthetics, Modern KW - PHILOSOPHY KW - Movements KW - Humanism KW - bisacsh KW - Biopolitique KW - Chine KW - Corps humain dans l'art KW - Medecine dans l'art KW - Esthetique KW - 21e siecle KW - Corps humain KW - Corps humain (Philosophie) KW - China KW - 21st century KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Biopolitical aesthetics and the Chinese body as surplus -- Chinese whispers: Frankenstein, the sleeping lion, and the emergence of a biopolitical aesthetics -- Souvenirs of the organ trade: the diasporic body in contemporary Chinese literature and art -- Organ economics: transplant, class, and witness from made in Hong Kong to the eye -- Still life: recovering (Chinese) ethnicity in the body worlds and beyond -- All rights preserved: intellectual property and the plastinated cadaver exhibits; Open Access N2 - In CHINESE SURPLUS Ari Heinrich dissects the figure of the medically or artistically commodified body in Chinese culture and popular science. Providing a history of how bodies have been thought and seen to mirror the nation, Heinrich charts the trajectory from an imperial idea of the body as a machine with interchangeable parts to current representations in which the parts are worth more than the whole and may be harvested at will--what he calls a diasporic form of the body. In seeing the body this way Heinrich makes clear his case for a new method he calls biopolitical aesthetics, one that uses the tools of literary and visual culture analysis to restore agency to aesthetics in the production of meaning in life during contemporary biopolitical times UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/64078/ ER -