Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-206) and index.
Introduction: Yōga, the intercultural art of embodiment and disembodiment -- Strong flesh at the ready: body and self in self-portraiture -- Accelerating the heartbeat: erotic nationalism and the Japanese nude -- Creating Oriental beauty: Chinese passages to imperial yōga -- The feast of fierce massacre: maximum disembodiment -- Epilogue: The collapse of yōga embodiment.