This talk will present some preliminary research on media treatments of the original and copycat Bodyworlds exhibits in the U.S., China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Australia.  It will address more specifically how media from each of these regions deals with the controversial problem of Chineseness and individual identity of "donor" bodies in both Gunther Von Hagens original exhibits and the "copycat" exhibits that sprung up, with bodies produced and processed in China, in the 

wake of Von Hagens' separation from his Chinese suppliers.  It is part of a large project that looks at the historical context of contemporary transnational debates about copyright and ownership of Chinese body-materials in the context of advancing technologies of plastination,exhibition, and perceptions of ethnicity.