The Afterlife of Images Translating the Pathological Body Between China and the West
Durham. Duke UP Durham 2008, 2008. Stock ID #167265 The author investigates the creation and circulation of Western medical discourses that linked ideas about disease to Chinese identity, beginning in the eighteenth century. Combining literary studies, the history of science, and visual culture studies, Heinrich analyses the rhetoric and iconography employed by medical missionaries to transmit to the West an image of China as 'sick' or 'diseased'. She also examines the absorption of that image back into China through missionary activity, the earliest translation of Western medical texts into Chinese, and even the literature of Chinese nationalism. From Publisher's description. When referring to this item please quote stockid 167265.
Black and white and colour photographic illustrations, xiv + 222pp, index, bibliography, notes, lower corner lightly bumped, overall a very good copy.
Price: $35.00 AU