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

By:

Chō, Kyō, 1953- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Selden, Kyoko Iriye, 1936-2013 [translator.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Series: Asia/Pacific/perspectivesPublication details: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2012.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781442218956
1442218959
9781442218949
1442218940

Uniform titles:

Bijo to wa nani ka. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

305.40952 23

LOC classification:

HQ1220.J3 C5313 2012eb

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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.

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Translated from the Japanese.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.