The search for the beautiful woman : a cultural history of Japanese and Chinese beauty / Cho Kyo ; translated by Kyoko Selden.

• 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.

Ämnesord

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)  -- History. (LCSH)

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)  -- China -- History. (LCSH)

Kvinnlig skönhet  -- historia

Japan  (sao)

Kina  (sao)

Klassifikation

HQ1220.J3 (LCC)

305.40952 (DDC)

Ohja (kssb/8 (machine generated))