Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body

by Ari Larissa Heinrich

Book Overview

What happens when the body becomes art in the age of biotechnological reproduction? In Chinese Surplus Ari Larissa Heinrich examines transnational Chinese aesthetic production to demonstrate how representations of the medically commodified body can illuminate the effects of biopolitical violence and postcolonialism in contemporary life. From the earliest appearance of Frankenstein in China to the more recent phenomenon of "cadaver art," he...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822370530
• ISBN13: 9780822370536
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"