TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chō,Kyō
AU  - Selden,Kyoko Iriye
TI  - The search for the beautiful woman: a cultural history of Japanese and Chinese beauty 
T2  - Asia/Pacific/perspectives
SN  - 9781442218956
AV  - HQ1220.J3 C5313 2012eb
U1  - 305.40952 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
KW  - Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
KW  - Japan
KW  - History
KW  - China
KW  - Beauté féminine (Esthétique)
KW  - Japon
KW  - Histoire
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Women's Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Translated from the Japanese; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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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