The search for the beautiful woman : a cultural history of Japanese and Chinese beauty
Kyō Chō (Author), Kyoko Iriye Selden (Translator)
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
eBook, English, 2012
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, 2012
History
1 online resource
9781442218956, 9781442218949, 1442218959, 1442218940
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Print version:
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
Translated from the Japanese
Translated from the Japanese