Chinese Surplus
Chinese SurplusAri Larissa Heinrich
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Chinese Surplus

Chinese Surplus Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body

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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.