The search for the beautiful woman : a cultural history of Japanese and Chinese beauty. Cho Kyo. translated by Kyoko Selden

• Titres liés: Collection :Asian/pacific/perspectives Texte imprimé Series editor, Mark Selden Lanham Rowman & Littlefield publishers
• Auteur: Chō, Kyō [1953-...]
• Selden, Kyoko Iriye (1936-2013)
• Éditeur: Lanham, Md. Toronto Plymouth etc. : Rowman & Littlefield, cop. 2012
  
• Sujets: Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- History -- Japan;
  Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- History -- China;
  Women in art;
  Women in literature;
  Women -- Social conditions -- History -- Japan;
  Women -- Social conditions -- History -- China;
  Beauté féminine (esthétique) -- Histoire -- Japon;
  Beauté féminine (esthétique) -- Histoire -- Chine;
  Femmes -- Dans l'art;
  Femmes -- Dans la littérature;
  Femmes -- Conditions sociales -- Histoire -- Japon;
  Femmes -- Conditions sociales -- Histoire -- Chine
• Notes: Bibliogr. p. 277-279. Glossaire. Index
  
• Contient: Prologue : 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, beauties in Japanese literature Resonance of aesthetic views Edo culture as a filter Until Naomi was born Epilogue : Where beauty will go
  
• Résumé: While a slender body is a prerequisite for beauty today, plump women were considered ideal in Tang Dynasty China and Heian-period Japan. Starting around the Southern Song period in China, bound feet symbolized the attractiveness of women. But in Japan, shaved eyebrows and blackened teeth long were markers of loveliness. For centuries, Japanese culture was profoundly shaped by China, but in complex ways that are only now becoming apparent. In this first full comparative history of the subject, Cho Kyo explores changing standards of feminine beauty in China and Japan over the past two millennia. Drawing on a rich array of literary and artistic 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 representations of beauty. Through fiction, poetry, art, advertisements, and photographs, the author vividly demonstrates how criteria of beauty differ greatly by era and culture and how aesthetic sense changed in the course of extended cultural transformations that were influenced by both China and the West
  
• Langue: Anglais;Japonais
  
• Date d'édition: cop. 2012
  
• Identifiant: 978-1-4422-1893-2 ; 1-4422-1893-2 ; 978-1-4422-1895-6 ; 1-4422-1895-9
  
• Desc. matérielle: 1 vol. (xiii-287 p.) : ill., jaquette ill. en coul. ; 24 cm