Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | Selden, Kyoko Iriye, 1936-2013, translator.
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| ISBN: | 9781442218956
1442218959
9781442218949
1442218940
9781442218932
1442218932
9781283940689
128394068X
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Translated from the Japanese.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translated from the Japanese.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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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| Other form: | Print version: 9781283940689
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