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The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West (Body, Commodity, Text)
Ari Larissa Heinrich
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| #1836913 in eBooks | 2008-01-30 | 2008-01-30 | File type: PDF||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A Fascinating Medical/Cultural Study|By RDD|In "The Afterlife of Images", Larissa N. Heinrich “traces the development and origins of the medical rhetoric and iconography that linked Chinese identity with bodily pathology at the onset of modernity” (pg. 4). This serves to trace the origin of the Sick Man of Asia trope. Heinrich does this through a series of case stud||
“This book is exemplary for doing what very few works of scholarship on Chinese history have done—privileging visual sources over textual ones. . . . [T]he effect of the book is remarkable, and The Afterlife of Images achieves its large
In 1739 China’s emperor authorized the publication of a medical text that included images of children with smallpox to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Those images made their way to Europe, where they were interpreted as indicative of the ill health and medical backwardness of the Chinese. In the mid-nineteenth century, the celebrated Cantonese painter Lam Qua collaborated with the American medical missionary Peter Parker in the creation of ...
You easily download any file type for your device.The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West (Body, Commodity, Text) | Ari Larissa Heinrich.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
