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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797513303321

Autore

Vig Perry Johansson <1963->

Titolo

The libidinal economy of China : gender, nationalism, and consumer culture / / Perry Johansson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham [Maryland] : , : Lexington Books, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-7391-9263-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 p.)

Disciplina

306.30951

Soggetti

Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects - China - History

Consumers - China - History

Sex - China - History

Sex role - China - History

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) - China - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: consumer culture, nationalism, and the beauty of woman -- Femininity after Mao -- Repatriation of difference -- Fashion anxiety -- Breasts, modernity, and white skin -- To love a Western woman -- The sexual geopolitics of "China" -- Conclusion: the gaze of the other.

Sommario/riassunto

This book describes, from a psychoanalytical point of view, the desires and anxieties of contemporary Chinese nationalism as it evolved after the 1989 student protests and crackdown. The author also unwraps China's convoluted relationship with its Occidental Other, describing how the Western gaze plays an essential part in forming China's self-image.