Theorising Chinese Masculinity - Society and Gender in China

Klappentext This book is a comprehensive analysis of Chinese masculinity. Zusammenfassung This book is a comprehensive analysis of Chinese masculinity. While there is a vast Eurocentric scholarship on gender and sexuality! there has been little work addressing these issues within the Chinese context. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introducing wen-wu: towards a definition of Chinese masculinity; 2. Portrait of the God of War Guan Yu: sex, politics and wu masculinity; 3. Confucius as sage, teacher, businessman: transformations of the wen Icon; 4. Scholars and intellectuals: representations of wen masculinity past and present; 5. The working-class hero: images of wu in traditional and Post-Mao fiction; 6. Women's voices: the ideal 'woman's man' in the twentieth century; 7. Lao She's The Two Mas and foreign wives: constructing wen masculinity for the modern world; 8. Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Chow Yun Fat: internationalising wu masculinity; 9. Wen-wu reconstructed: Chinese masculinity hybridised and globalised; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Louie Kam, Kam Louie, Kam (Australian National University Louie, Louie Kam
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.09.2009
• EAN: 9780521119047
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11904-7
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; China, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender Studies: Men, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies