The search for the beautiful woman [[electronic resource] ] : a cultural history of Japanese and Chinese beauty / / Cho Kyo ; translated by Kyoko Selden

• Autore: Chō Kyō <1953->
• Pubblicazione: Lanham, MD, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (303 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.40952
• Soggetto topico: Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) - Japan - History; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) - China - History
• Altri autori: SeldenKyoko Iriye <1936-2013.>
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-279) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Translator's Note; Preface to the English Edition; Prologue; 1 : Favored Appearances; 2 : Feared Beauties; 3 : The Rhetoric of Representation; 4 : Beauty as a Construct; 5 : Beauties in Chinese Verse and Prose, Beauties in Japanese Literature; 6 : Resonance of Aesthetic Views; 7 : Edo Culture as a Filter; 8 : Until Naomi Was Born; Epilogue; Afterword; Glossary of Selected Chinese and Japanese Names, Titles, and Terms; Selected Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: For centuries, Japanese culture, including ideals of feminine beauty, was profoundly shaped by China. In this first full comparative history on the subject, Cho Kyo explores changing standards of beauty in China and Japan, ranging from plumpness to bound feet to blackened teeth. Drawing on a rich array of sources gathered over a decade of research, he considers which Chinese representations were rejected or accepted and transformed in Japan. He then traces the introduction of Western aesthetics into Japan starting in the Meiji era, leading to slowly developing but radical changes in the repres
• Titolo autorizzato: The search for the beautiful woman
• ISBN: 1-283-94068-X; 1-4422-1895-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786160503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives