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The Afterlife of Images – Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West: Body, Commodity, Text

Autor Ari Larissa Heinrich
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 feb 2008
In 1739 China’s emperor commissioned images of children with smallpox to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Those images made their way to Europe, where they were interpreted as indicative of the ill health and medical backwardness of the Chinese. In the mid-nineteenth century, the celebrated Cantonese painter Lam Qua collaborated with the American medical missionary Peter Parker in the creation of portraits of Chinese patients with disfiguring pathologies, rendered both before and after surgery. Europeans saw those portraits as evidence of Western medical prowess. Within China, the visual idiom that the paintings established influenced the development of medical photography. In The Afterlife of Images, Larissa N. Heinrich investigates the creation and circulation of Western medical discourses that linked ideas about disease to Chinese identity beginning in the eighteenth century. Combining literary studies, the history of science, and visual cultural studies, Heinrich analyzes the rhetoric and iconography through which medical missionaries transmitted to the West an image of China as “sick” or “diseased,” as well as the absorption of that image back into China through missionary activity and through the earliest translations of Western medical texts into Chinese. 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. Through readings of the fiction of the doctor-turned-writer Lu Xun, she chronicles how ideas of the Chinese character as weak and fundamentally diseased were absorbed even into the literature of Chinese nationalism.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822341130
ISBN-10: 0822341131
Pagini: 248
Ilustrații: 42 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
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Cuprins

Introduction; 1. How China Became the “Cradle of Smallpox”: Transformations in Discourse; 2. The Pathological Body: Lam Qua’s Medical Portraiture; 3. The Pathological Empire: Early Medical Photography in China; 4. “What’s Hard for the Eye to See”: Anatomical Aesthetics from Benjamin Hobson to Lu Xun; Epilogue: Through the Microscope

Recenzii

“The Afterlife of Images is a fascinating and important study of the ways that Western medicine participated in the formation of ideas of race, the discrete body, the autonomous self, the nation, and a modernist literary imagination in China. Well written, carefully researched, and loaded with subtle and persuasive interpretations, it is the kind of historical study needed to demonstrate the aesthetic and ontological constructions—the naturalizing powers of medical representation—that have given us our complex modern ‘nature.’” Judith Farquhar, author of Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China

“Larissa N. Heinrich deftly weaves a range of materials—including prints, painting, photography, and literature—into a fascinating narrative of the ways visual and linguistic tropes formed and reinforced certain eighteenth and nineteenth-century Western understandings of China. Furthermore, she is attentive to the dialectics of the relationship, especially the way that Western knowledge and ways of seeing shaped certain Chinese concepts about China and its problems, especially in the latter half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth.”—Stanley K. Abe, author of Ordinary Images

“[T]he co-production of images remains a central theme inThe Afterlife of Images in a way which generally avoids the ‘Chinese people as victim’ understanding of a reductivist critique of Orientalism...This perceptive insight is typical of a work, produced by a scholar whose initial training was in Chinese literature, which is exemplary in its serious engagement with a very wide range of images to open up discussion about the body in Chinese visual culture in ways which are likely to be much cited and to prove very significant points of reference in the future.” Craig Clunas, Art History, Summer 2009

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"Larissa N. Heinrich deftly weaves a range of materials--including prints, painting, photography, and literature--into a fascinating narrative of the ways visual and linguistic tropes formed and reinforced certain eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western understandings of China. Furthermore, she is attentive to the dialectics of the relationship, especially the way that Western knowledge and ways of seeing shaped certain Chinese concepts about China and its problems, especially in the latter half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth."--Stanley K. Abe, author of "Ordinary Images"

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How western society came to see China as an inherently unhealthy place, and how that notion came to be incorporated into Chinese national identity