Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe)
Chinese Surplus explores how biopolitical systems and aesthetic practices shape ideas about the medically commodified body in modern Chinese contexts. Bringing together cultural analysis, medical humanities, and social theory, Ari Larissa Heinrich considers the connections among embodiment, representation, commodification, and power.
About This Book
Chinese Surplus examines the relationship between biopolitical power, aesthetic representation, and the medically commodified body.
Focusing on modern Chinese contexts, the book considers how bodies become understood, represented, and valued through medical and cultural systems.
Its approach connects critical theory with questions of medicine, embodiment, commodification, and social power.
The book appears in the Perverse Modernities series, which publishes interdisciplinary studies of modernity and its uneven effects.
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