Appetites
Judith Farquhar · 2002
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About the book
Judith Farquhar’s innovative study of medicine and popular culture in modern China reveals the thoroughly political and historical character of pleasure. Ranging over a variety of cultural terrains--fiction, medical texts, film and television, journalism, and observations of clinics and urban daily life in Beijing—Appetites challenges the assumption that the mundane enjoyments of bodily life are natural and unvarying. Farquhar analyzes modern Chinese reflections on embodied existence to show how contemporary appetites are grounded in history.
Book details
- Year
- 2002
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Editions
- 8
- Pages
- 341
- ISBN
- 9780822329060
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