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Sensing China: Modern Transformations of Sensory Culture book cover

1st Edition

Sensing China Modern Transformations of Sensory Culture

Edited By Shengqing Wu, Xuelei Huang Copyright 2023
312 Pages 43 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

312 Pages 43 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

312 Pages 43 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book presents the first collection of studies of the senses and sensory experiences in China, filling a gap in sensory research while offering new approaches to Chinese Studies. Bringing together 12 chapters by literary scholars and historians, this book critically interrogates the deeply rooted meanings that the senses have coded in Chinese culture and society. Built on an exploration of... Read more

1. Introduction
Shengqing Wu and Xuelei Huang

Part 1: Understanding the Senses in Traditional Culture

2. Aural and Visual Hierarchies in Texts from Early China: Beyond Epistemology of the Senses
Jane Geaney

3. The Culture of Smells: Taboo and Sublimation from Huchou to Tianxiang
Paolo Santangelo

Part 2: Reconfiguring the Senses and Modern Sensibility

4. Smellscapes of Nanjing Road: Cognitive and Affective Mapping
Xuelei Huang

5. The Kiss as an Art of Love: Touch, Sensuality, and Embodied Experience in Modern Chinese Culture
Shengqing Wu

6. Radio, Sound Cinema, and Community Singing: The Making of a New Sonic Culture in Modern China
Xiaobing Tang

Part 3: Socialist Corporeality, Sensorium and Memory

7. Making Sense of Labor: Works of Art and Arts of Work in China’s Great Leap Forward
Pang Laikwan

8. Narrating Sweet Bitterness: Tasting and Sensing the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Lena Henningsen

9. The Hot Noise of Open-Air Cinema
Jie Li

Part 4: Senses, Media and Postmodernity

10. Touching Father: Sight, Sound, Touch, and Intermedial Intimacies
Carlos Rojas

11. The Senses in Recent Exhibitionary Practice in Chinese History Museums
Kirk Denton

12. Epilogue: "And suddenly the memory revealed itself…."—Making Sense of the Senses in History
Barbara Mittler

Biography

Shengqing Wu is Professor of Chinese Literature at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.

Xuelei Huang is Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

"Xuelei Huang and Shengqing Wu are at the vanguard of the sensorial revolution in Chinese Studies. ... Huang and Wu have not only opened a new chapter in Sinology (viz., Chinese Studies as a branch of what could be called sensology), they have also contributed significantly to laying the foundations for the comparative study of sensory formations - that is, a global history of the senses."

David Howes, Asian Affairs

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