Title: Bodies in China : philosophy, aesthetics, gender, and politics /
Authors: Wen, Jiehua
Year: 2016
Subjects: Feminist theory China.; Philosophy, Confucian China.; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) China; Human body (Philosophy) China.
Contents: Contemporary feminist body theories and Mencius' ideas of body and mind -- Chinese philosophy and the suggestion of a matriarchal aesthetics -- Reclaiming the body: Francis Bacon's fugitive bodies and Confucian aesthetics on bodily expression -- Discourses on female bodily aesthetics and their early revelations in The book of songs -- Reflections on traditional Chinese women's embroidery: the subject of bodily expression, gender identity, and fashion -- Kissing in Chinese culture -- Expression extreme and history trauma in women's body art in China: the case of He Chengyao -- Notes on a Chinese garden: comparative responses to Arnold Berleant's environmental aesthetics -- Female bodily aesthetics, politics, and feminine ideals of beauty in Chinese traditions -- Beauty and the state: literati fantasy, iron girls, and the Olympics hoopla -- Psychoanalysis and women's physiology and psychopathology in feudal China: a case study by Pan Guangdan -- Fashioning body: Hong Kong Chinese women, fashion, and identity issues of the Sixties -- Sex and emotion: the representation of Chinese female sex workers in recent discourses and the cosmopolitan context.