"If the dying body makes us flinch and look away, struggling not to see what we have seen, the lost body disappears from cultural view, buried along with the se

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This important contribution to the study of early modern Chinese fiction and representation of gender relations focuses on literary representations of the prost

We know more about the physical body—how it begins, how it responds to illness, even how it decomposes—than ever before. Yet not all bodies are created equa

This important contribution to the study of early modern Chinese fiction and representation of gender relations focuses on literary representations of the prost