Bryan S. Turner & Zheng Yangwen 
The Body in Asia [PDF ebook] 

List of Figures
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Piety, Politics and Philosophy: Asia and the Global Body
Bryan S. Turner and Zheng Yangwen

Chapter 1. The Global Body Cannot Ignore Asia
Susan Brownell

PART I: THE BODY AND RELIGION

Chapter 2. Saint or Serpent? Engendering the Female Body in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives
Monika Dix

Chapter 3. Creating Religious Bodies: Fasting Rituals in West Java
Jörgen Hellman

Chapter 4. Formations of Public Piety: New Veiling, the Body, and the Citizen-Subject in Contemporary Indonesia
Sonja van Wichelen

PART II: THE BODY AND CULTURE

Chapter 5. Westernized Body or Japanized Western Body: The Desirable Female Body in Contemporary Japanese Women’s Magazines
Junko Ishiguro

Chapter 6. Fatness and Well-being: Bodies and the Generation Gap in Contemporary China
Anna Lora-Wainwright

PART III: THE BODY AND THE STATE

Chapter 7. Seki Jūrōji and the Japanese Body: Martial Arts, Kokutai, and Citizen–State Relations in Meiji Japan
Denis Gainty

Chapter 8. The Sacred and the Sanitary: The Colonial ‘Medicalization’ of the Filipino Body
Julius Bautista with Ma. Mercedes Planta

Chapter 9. State and Religion Contestations over the Body: Hook Swinging and the Production of New Human Subjects
R. Santhosh

Chapter 10. Women’s Revolution and Liberation Embodied in Mao Zedong Era Ballet
Zheng Yangwen

Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index

Zheng Yangwen received her Ph D from the University of Cambridge (King’s College). She taught and researched at the University of Pennsylvania (2002–04) and the National University of Singapore (2004–06) before joining the University of Manchester in 2007. She is the author of The Social Life of Opium in China (2005). She co-edited Negotiating Asymmetry: China’s Place in Asia with Anthony Reid (2009) and Personal Names in Asia: History, Culture and Identity with Charles J-H Macdonald (2009).