The Naked Gaze: Reflections on Chinese Modernity

by Carlos Rojas

This is a study of visuality in early modern and modern China. Its focus, however, is not so much on imagery per se but rather on how vision itself has been conceived, imagined, and deployed in a variety of discursive contexts. Of particular interest is how these discourses of vision have been used to articulate issues of gender and desire, and specifically processes of gendered subject formation. Through detailed readings of narrative works by eight...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674031741
• ISBN13: 9780674031746
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.0"