The libidinal economy of China : gender, nationalism, and consumer culture / / Perry Johansson
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| Autore: |
Vig Perry Johansson <1963->
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| Titolo: |
The libidinal economy of China : gender, nationalism, and consumer culture / / Perry Johansson
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham [Maryland] : , : Lexington Books, , [2015] |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (153 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.30951 |
| Soggetto topico: | Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects - China - History |
| Consumers - China - History | |
| Sex - China - History | |
| Sex role - China - History | |
| Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) - China - History | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The libidinal economy of China |
| ISBN: | 0-7391-9263-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910817876103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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