Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body

Author/Contributor(s):	Heinrich, Ari Larissa
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	03/05/2018
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Ari Larissa Heinrich examines transnational Chinese aesthetic production--from the earliest appearance of Frankenstein in China to the more recent phenomenon of "cadaver art"-- to demonstrate how representations of the medically commodified body can illuminate the effects of biopolitical violence and postcolonialism in contemporary life.