commodity Archives - Franklin Humanities Institute https://humanitiesfutures.org/tag/commodity/ Humanities Futures Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:20:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 Toward Global Histories of Pharmaceuticals in East Asia https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/toward-global-histories-pharmaceuticals-east-asia/ Mon, 05 Mar 2018 19:19:17 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=papers&p=3038 This brief essay considers the history of pharmaceuticals in East Asia. It begins with a discussion of the burgeoning popularity of cultural and social histories of modern medicine in East Asia, and it describes the benefits and potential pitfalls of examining medicines as commodities.

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]]> On Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Chinese Body as Surplus https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/on-biopolitical-aesthetics-and-the-chinese-body-as-surplus/ Wed, 05 Jul 2017 23:01:31 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=papers&p=2493 This essay introduces the idea of biopolitical aesthetics and argues for a more nuanced attention to the figure of the medically commodified body in contemporary Chinese and transnational literature, art, and popular culture.

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