Review of Vulgar Beauty: Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium by Mila Zuo (Duke University Press)

E. N. Schmoll
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In 'Vulgar Beauty: Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium,' Mila Zuo examines how female Chinese actors perform "vulgar beauty" as a way of "worlding" to create community and belonging through affective shocks, and specifically, to produce feelings of Chineseness. By using the sense of taste, and specifically the flavors bitter, salty, pungent, sweet, and sour, as a framework, Zuo delves into close readings of television and cinematic case studies to look at the different ways vulgar beauty is deployed by these actors. In its analysis, this book offers a reconceptualization of feminine beauty outside of white western dictates and suggests that (vulgar) beauty can be utilized as a potentially disruptive and transformative force, specifically in destabilizing racial and patriarchal power structures.
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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis 医学-临床神经学
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