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Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body

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Post-Mao China has seen the embrace of a neoliberal market logic that has brought the objectification and commodification of human bodies and body parts to its logical conclusion—kidneys, livers, a...
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Post-Mao China has seen the embrace of a neoliberal market logic that has brought the objectification and commodification of human bodies and body parts to its logical conclusion—kidneys, livers, a...

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The afterlife of images

TL;DR: The Pathological Body: Lam Qua's Medical Portraiture 39 3. The Pathological Empire: Early Medical Photography in China 73 4. "What's Hard for the Eye to See": Anatomical Aesthetics from Benjamin Hobson to Lu Xun 113 as mentioned in this paper.