Chinese Surplus

"In this important and complex work, Ari Larissa Heinrich continues his interrogation with the politics of the body through a systematic examination of various representations of the medically commodified body in contemporary Chinese and transnational literature, media, art, visual culture, and popular science. Incorporating both political economy and aesthetics, this examination opens up new ways to thinking about the interrelationship and interpenetration between science, medicine, commodity, and the arts in modern and contemporary environments." — Wu Hung, Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago

“Chinese Surplus is a timely, deeply moving, and consequential work, one that is both intellectually and affectively engaging. It significantly advances contemporary debates about the international division of humanity, affective and immaterial labor, biopolitics and biopower, imperial legacies, and globalization. A model of interdisciplinary scholarship, its ambitious originality will become a yardstick against which future studies will be measured.” — Lisa Lowe, author of The Intimacies of Four Continents