Theorising Chinese masculinity : society and gender in China / Kam Louie
- Bib ID:
- 109795
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- Author:
- Louie, Kam
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- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002
- viii, 239 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0521806216
- Summary:
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"This book is the first 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. Kam Louie uses the concepts of wen (cultural attainment) and wu (martial valour) to explain attitudes to masculinity. This revises most Western analyses of Asian masculinity that rely on the yin-yang binary. Examining classical and contemporary Chinese literature and film, the book also looks at the Chinese diaspora to consider Chinese masculinity within and outside China. Its use of a largely indigenous framework to analyse Chinese masculinity makes it an exciting addition to this burgeoning field."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 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. Confucious 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:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography, p. 205-229.
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