Chinese surplus: biopolitical aesthetics and the medically commodified body
Durham: Duke University Press (
2018)
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Abstract
Biopolitical aesthetics and the Chinese body as surplus -- Chinese whispers : Frankenstein, the sleeping lion, and the emergence of a biopolitical aesthetics -- Souvenirs of the organ trade : the diasporic body in contemporary Chinese literature and art -- Organ economics: transplant, class, and witness from made in Hong Kong to the eye -- Still life : recovering (Chinese) ethnicity in the body worlds and beyond -- All rights preserved : intellectual property and the plastinated cadaver exhibits.