List of Figures vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: Piety, Politics and Philosophy: Asia and the Global Body 1(22)
Bryan S. Turner
Zheng Yangwen
The Global Body Cannot Ignore Asia 23(20)
Susan Brownell
Part I --- The Body and Religion
Saint or Serpent? Engendering the Female Body in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives 43(16)
Monika Dix
Creating Religious Bodies: Fasting Rituals in West Java 59(16)
Jorgen Hellman
Formations of Public Piety: New Veiling, the Body, and the Citizen-Subject in Contemporary Indonesia 75(22)
Sonja van Wichelen
Part II --- The Body and Culture
Westernized Body or Japanized Western Body: The Desirable Female Body in Contemporary Japanese Women's Magazines 97(16)
Junko Ishiguro
Fatness and Well-being: Bodies and the Generation Gap in Contemporary China 113(16)
Anna Lora-Wainwright
Part III --- The Body and the State
Seki Juroji and the Japanese Body: Martial Arts, Kokutai, and Citizen---State Relations in Meiji Japan 129(18)
Denis Gainty
The Sacred and the Sanitary: The Colonial `Medicalization' of the Filipino Body 147(18)
Julius Bautista
State and Religious Contestations over the Body: Hook Swinging and the Production of New Human Subjects 165(18)
Santhosh Raghavan Nair
Women's Revolution Embodied in Mao Zedong Era Ballet 183(20)
Zheng Yangwen
Notes on Contributors 203(4)
Bibliography 207(18)
Index 225
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