Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
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Time: June 11-12, 1999
Place: Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan
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A. From Face Beautification to Body Sculpturing: Health, Beauty, and Medicine
1. Pingyi Chu (Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
| Shape My Body: The Representations of Femininity and Science in the Advertisements for Body Sculpturing Beauty Salons |
2. Su-jung Lin (Institute of Anthropology, National Tsing-hua University, Taiwan)
| Gender, Body and Desire: Woman's image and the changing body aesthetics in Taiwan |
3. Duan-Rung Chen (College of Public Health, National Taiwan University)
| Social Network and Non-prescription Pills-taking Behaviors among Women in Taiwan: A Study on Pills for Cosmetic Purpose |
B. The Use of Female Body: Pregnancy and War
4. Yi-li Wu (Dept. of History, Albion College, Michigan, USA)
| Medicalizing the Monstrous: Ghost Fetuses (guitai) in Traditional Chinese Medical Thought |
5. Chushan Chiang (Dept. of History, National Tsing-hua University, Taiwan)
| Women and War -- Confronting Cannons with Naked Women in Ming-Ching China |
C. Image, Sensation, Health and Beauty
6. Noriko Suzuki (Dept. of History, Konan Women¡¦s University, Japan)
| Reflecting Beauty: Mirror and Beauties in Edo Japan |
7. Cheng-hua Wang (Institute of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Normal University)
| The Representation of Womanhood in Chen Hongshou's Figure Painting and the Culture of Connoisseurship in Late-Ming China |
D. Male Body in Medical Culture
8. Akihito Suzuki (Keio University, Japan)
| Narcissistic Invalid or Heroic Genius?: Typologies of Male Beauty and Consumption in England in the Eighteenth- and early Nineteenth-Centuries |
9. Daiwie Fu (Institute of History, National Tsing-hua University, Taiwan), Ling-fang Cheng (Dept. of Sociology, Fujen Catholic University, Taiwan)
| Urological Image of Male Body in Taiwan |
F. Sexual Beauty and its Regulations
10. Yu-chen Li (Dept. of East Asian Studies, Cornell University, USA)
| Desiring for Beauty: the Representation of Sexual Beauty in the Buddhist Literature |
11. Hsiao-t'i Li (Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
| Body and Desire in Eighteenth Century China: A Carnival Outside the ¡§Civilized World¡¨ |
G. Health and Beauty: Alternative Views
12. Xinmei Yang & Zhitien Lo (Dept. of History, Sichuan University, China)
| The Reject of Foodbinding and its Beauty in Modern China |
13. Yuanpeng Chen (Dept. of History, National Taiwan University)
| Tattooing the Body in Traditional China |
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