Wen Hua
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9789888139811
- eISBN:
- 9789888180691
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888139811.003.0007
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
Beauty is about economy; nevertheless, it is also about ideology. This chapter discusses the political implications of China’s booming beauty economy. A main driving force of cosmetic surgery in ...
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Beauty is about economy; nevertheless, it is also about ideology. This chapter discusses the political implications of China’s booming beauty economy. A main driving force of cosmetic surgery in China is pragmatism. This pragmatism is not only produced by the instability of the transitional Chinese social structure, but is also channelled by the Chinese Communist Party’s pragmatic ideology as exemplified by its ”cat theory” and “xiaokang” concepts. It affects an individual’s choice to undergo cosmetic surgery and the state’s policy of developing its beauty industry. Moreover, using the Miss World competition and the ceremony hostesses of Beijing Olympics as examples, the author discusses how beautiful female bodies have been appropriated into a nationalist agenda in China. Female body image and alteration practices have become both a reflection of personal identity, and a site of ideological contestation, of which state power and market forces reconfigure their power structures to form a new bodily regime.Less
Beauty is about economy; nevertheless, it is also about ideology. This chapter discusses the political implications of China’s booming beauty economy. A main driving force of cosmetic surgery in China is pragmatism. This pragmatism is not only produced by the instability of the transitional Chinese social structure, but is also channelled by the Chinese Communist Party’s pragmatic ideology as exemplified by its ”cat theory” and “xiaokang” concepts. It affects an individual’s choice to undergo cosmetic surgery and the state’s policy of developing its beauty industry. Moreover, using the Miss World competition and the ceremony hostesses of Beijing Olympics as examples, the author discusses how beautiful female bodies have been appropriated into a nationalist agenda in China. Female body image and alteration practices have become both a reflection of personal identity, and a site of ideological contestation, of which state power and market forces reconfigure their power structures to form a new bodily regime.
Tsering Woeser and Wang Lixiong
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9789888208111
- eISBN:
- 9789888268191
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888208111.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Political History
The political destiny of the Chinese and the Tibetans are intertwined. Yet, the increasing politicization in the Tibet Autonomous Region threatens to worse the conflict between them. The 2008 Beijing ...
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The political destiny of the Chinese and the Tibetans are intertwined. Yet, the increasing politicization in the Tibet Autonomous Region threatens to worse the conflict between them. The 2008 Beijing Olympics and the Qinghai-Tibet Railway are vehicles of such politicization. The Tibetans’ political future lies less with the Dalai Lama but more with the initiative to abandon wishful thinking and take up organizing. Self-immolation is futile sacrifice. If the Tibet question is not resolved during the Dalai Lam’s lifetime, the next riots will be much worse than those in March 2008.Less
The political destiny of the Chinese and the Tibetans are intertwined. Yet, the increasing politicization in the Tibet Autonomous Region threatens to worse the conflict between them. The 2008 Beijing Olympics and the Qinghai-Tibet Railway are vehicles of such politicization. The Tibetans’ political future lies less with the Dalai Lama but more with the initiative to abandon wishful thinking and take up organizing. Self-immolation is futile sacrifice. If the Tibet question is not resolved during the Dalai Lam’s lifetime, the next riots will be much worse than those in March 2008.
Manjari Chatterjee Miller
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780804786522
- eISBN:
- 9780804788434
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804786522.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
The book concludes by showing how statements from leaders in India and China today still reek of victimization. Rather then emphasizing the fact that India and China were the victors in colonialism, ...
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The book concludes by showing how statements from leaders in India and China today still reek of victimization. Rather then emphasizing the fact that India and China were the victors in colonialism, they continue to emphasize the wrongs done to them. It shows how this book has offered a new way to think about both international relations theory and India, and China. It then offers new pathways for research.Less
The book concludes by showing how statements from leaders in India and China today still reek of victimization. Rather then emphasizing the fact that India and China were the victors in colonialism, they continue to emphasize the wrongs done to them. It shows how this book has offered a new way to think about both international relations theory and India, and China. It then offers new pathways for research.
