Unif Title Bijo to wa nani ka. English Title The search for the beautiful woman : a cultural history of Japanese and Chinese beauty / Cho Kyo ; translated by Kyoko Selden.

Descript 1 online resource Series Asia/Pacific/perspectives Asia/Pacific/perspectives. Note Translated from the Japanese. Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Note Translated from the Japanese. Contents 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. Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide Subject Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- Japan -- History. Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- China -- History. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies. Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) (OCoLC)fst00922652 China. (OCoLC)fst01206073 Japan. (OCoLC)fst01204082 Alt Author Selden, Kyoko Iriye, 1936-2013, translator. ISBN 9781442218956 (electronic bk.) 1442218959 (electronic bk.) 9781442218949 1442218940 9781442218932 1442218932 9781283940689 128394068X