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Body, Commodity, Text eBook Series

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  • The Afterlife of Images

    Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West

    by Ari Larissa Heinrich, Arjun Appadurai, Judith Farquhar ...
    Series series Body, Commodity, Text
    In 1739 China’s emperor authorized the publication of a medical text that included images of children with smallpox to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Those images made their way to Europe, where they were interpreted as indicative of the ill health and medical backwardness of the Chinese. In the mid-nineteenth century, the celebrated Cantonese painter Lam Qua collaborated with ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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  • The Opium War

    Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China

    by Julia Lovell ...
    This "crisp and readable account" of the nineteenth century British campaign sheds light on modern Chinese identity through "a heartbreaking story of war" ( The Wall Street Journal).In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting voted to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps, and a healthy dose of political opportunism and collaboration followed. Rich in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Smile Revolution

    In Eighteenth-Century Paris

    by Colin Jones CBE ...
    You could be forgiven for thinking that the smile has no history; it has always been the same. However, just as different cultures in our own day have different rules about smiling, so did different societies in the past. In fact, amazing as it might seem, it was only in late eighteenth century France that western civilization discovered the art of the smile. In the 'Old Regime of Teeth' which ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Uyghur Nation

    Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier

    by David Brophy ...
    The meeting of the Russian and Qing empires in the nineteenth century had dramatic consequences for Central Asia’s Muslim communities. Along this frontier, a new political space emerged, shaped by competing imperial and spiritual loyalties, cross-border economic and social ties, and the revolutions that engulfed Russia and China in the early twentieth century. David Brophy explores how a community ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Diagnosing Giants

    Solving the Medical Mysteries of Thirteen Patients Who Changed the World

    by Philip A. Mackowiak ...
    Could Lincoln have lived? After John Wilkes Booth fired a low-velocity .44 caliber bullet into the back of the president's skull, Lincoln did not perish immediately. Attending doctors cleaned and probed the wound, and actually improved his breathing for a time. Today medical trauma teams help similar victims survive-including Gabby Giffords, whose injury was strikingly like Lincoln's. In ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Chinese Walled Cities 221 BC– AD 1644

    by Dr Stephen Turnbull ...
    Series Book 84 - Fortress
    It has been said in China that a city without a wall would be as inconceivable as a house without a roof.Even the smallest village invariably had some form of defensive wall, while the Great Wall of China was an attempt to build a barrier along the most vulnerable border of the entire country. Yet the finest examples of walled communities were China's walled cities, whose defensive architecture ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • In the Bonesetter's Waiting Room

    Travels Through Indian Medicine

    by Aarathi Prasad ...
    WINNER OF BEST POPULAR MEDICINE BOOK AT THE BMA MEDICAL BOOK AWARDSLONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 JHALAK PRIZEThe story of medicine in India is rich and complex: uniting cutting-edge technological developments with ancient cultural traditions.Aarathi Prasad investigates how Indian medicine came to be the way it is. Her travels will take her to bonesetter clinics in Jaipur and Hyderabad and the waiting ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Great Manchurian Plague of 1910-1911

    The Geopolitics of an Epidemic Disease

    by Dr. William C. Summers, M.D. ...
    When plague broke out in Manchuria in 1910 as a result of transmission from marmots to humans, it struck a region struggling with the introduction of Western medicine, as well as with the interactions of three different national powers: Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. In this fascinating case history, William Summers relates how this plague killed as many as 60,000 people in less than a year, and ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Body Incantatory

    Spells and the Ritual Imagination in Medieval Chinese Buddhism

    by Paul Copp ...
    Series series The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies
    Whether chanted as devotional prayers, intoned against the dangers of the wilds, or invoked to heal the sick and bring ease to the dead, incantations were pervasive features of Buddhist practice in late medieval China (600–1000 C.E.). Material incantations, in forms such as spell-inscribed amulets and stone pillars, were also central to the spiritual lives of both monks and laypeople. In centering ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Fleshing out surfaces

    Skin in French art and medicine, 1650–1850

    by Mechthild Fend ...
    Series series Rethinking Art's Histories
    Fleshing out surfaces is the first English-language book on skin and flesh tones in art. It considers flesh and skin in art theory, image making and medical discourse in seventeenth to nineteenth-century France. Describing a gradual shift between the early modern and the modern period, it argues that what artists made when imitating human nakedness was not always the same. Initially understood in ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Embattled Glory

    Veterans, Military Families, and the Politics of Patriotism in China, 1949–2007

    by Neil J. Diamant ...
    Series series State & Society in East Asia
    This groundbreaking book examines the treatment of veterans of the People's Liberation Army and military families as an illuminating window into Chinese patriotism, citizenship, and legitimacy. Using a wealth of recently declassified archival documents and employing a wide comparative perspective, Neil J. Diamant presents the first large-scale study of these groups in comparison to similar ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Reconstructing the Body

    Classicism, Modernism, and the First World War

    by Ana Carden-Coyne ...
    The First World War mangled faces, blew away limbs, and ruined nerves. Ten million dead, twenty million severe casualties, and eight million people with permanent disabilities - modern war inflicted pain and suffering with unsparing, mechanical efficiency. However, such horror was not the entire story. People also rebuilt their lives, their communities, and their bodies. From the ashes of war rose ... Read more

    $100.79 USD