Events for 11/09/2017 › Lecture

This talk explores the history of Frankenstein’s monster—in his lesser-known, extra-diegetic Chinese afterlife. Sketching out a quantitative genealogy of Frankenstein in China, Heinrich develops an alternative history to highlight important shifts in corporeal aesthetics over the last two centuries, teasing out along the way an unexpected relationship between Frankenstein and the well-known late nineteenth-century political characterization of China by Liang Qichao and others as a “sleeping lion.”