The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West

by Larissa N. Heinrich and Ari Larissa Heinrich

Book Overview

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 the American medical missionary Peter Parker in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822341131
• ISBN13: 9780822341130
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.1"