| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Asia/Pacific/perspectives |
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Asia/Pacific/perspectives.
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| Contents |
The search for the beautiful woman -- Favored appearances -- Feared beauties -- The rhetoric of representation -- Beauty as a construct -- Beautiful women in Chinese verse and prose, beautiful women in Japanese literature -- Symphony of aesthetics -- Edo culture as a filter -- Toward the birth of Naomi -- Epilogue: The future of beauty |
| Summary |
For centuries, Japanese culture, including ideals of feminine beauty, was profoundly shaped by China. In this first full comparative history on the subject, Cho Kyo explores changing standards of beauty in China and Japan, ranging from plumpness to bound feet to blackened teeth. Drawing on a rich array of sources gathered over a decade of research, he considers which Chinese representations were rejected or accepted and transformed in Japan. He then traces the introduction of Western aesthetics into Japan starting in the Meiji era, leading to slowly developing but radical changes in the repres |
| Notes |
Translated from the Japanese |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the Japanese |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- Japan -- History
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Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- China -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
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China
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Japan
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Selden, Kyoko Iriye, 1936-2013, translator.
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| LC no. |
2012032384 |
| ISBN |
9781442218956 |
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1442218959 |
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9781442218949 |
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1442218940 |
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