Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics

Released on by Sheldon H. Lu
preview-18

  • Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics Book Detail

  • Author : Sheldon H. Lu
  • Release Date : 2007-05-31
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 281
  • ISBN 13 : 0824861868
  • File Size : 39,39 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics by Sheldon H. Lu PDF Summary

Book Description: 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 inquiry into contemporary Chinese urban space in popular cinema and experimental photography and art. Examples are offered that capture the daily lives of contemporary Chinese as they struggle to make the transition from the vanishing space of the socialist lifestyle to the new capitalist economy of commodities. Lu reexamines the history and implications of China’s belated integration into the capitalist world system before closing with a postscript that traces the genealogy of the term "postsocialism" and points to the real relevance of the idea for the investigation of everyday life in China in the twenty-first century.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics

Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics

File Size : 34,34 MB
Total View : 9635 Views
DOWNLOAD

This ambitious work is a multimedia, interdisciplinary study of Chinese modernity in the context of globalization from the late nineteenth century to the presen

Chinese Ecocinema

Chinese Ecocinema

File Size : 59,59 MB
Total View : 4348 Views
DOWNLOAD

This anthology is a book-length study of China's ecosystem through the lens of cinema. Proposing 'ecocinema' as a new critical framework, the volume collectivel

Chinese-language Film

Chinese-language Film

File Size : 81,81 MB
Total View : 4354 Views
DOWNLOAD

A comprehensive work on Chinese film, this text explores the manifold dimensions of the subject and highlights areas overlooked in previous studies. Leading sch

Transnational Chinese Cinemas

Transnational Chinese Cinemas

File Size : 32,32 MB
Total View : 8912 Views
DOWNLOAD

Zhang Yimou's first film, Red Sorghum, took the Golden Bear Award in 1988 at the Berlin International Film Festival. Since then Chinese films have continued to