Changing Chinese masculinities : from imperial pillars of state to global real men /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2016] ©2016
Description:	ix, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Transnational Asian masculinities ; v. 1. Transnational Asian masculinities ; v. 1.
Subject:	Men -- China -- Identity. Masculinity -- China. Gender identity -- China. National characteristics, Chinese. Chinese -- Family relationships. Gender identity. Manners and customs. Masculinity. Men -- Identity. National characteristics, Chinese. China -- Social life and customs. China.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10902352

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Other authors / contributors:	Louie, Kam, editor.
ISBN:	9789888208562 988820856X 9789888313716 9888313711
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"It is now almost a cliché to claim that China and the Chinese people have changed. Yet inside the new clothing that is worn by the Chinese man today, Kam Louie contends, we still see much of the historical Chinese man. With contributions from a team of outstanding scholars, Changing Chinese Masculinities studies a range of Chinese men in diverse and, most importantly, Chinese contexts. It explores the fundamental meaning of manhood in the Chinese setting and the very notion of an indigenous Chinese masculinity"--Back cover.

Table of Contents:

List of Contributors
Introduction
Part 1. Late Imperial Chinese Masculinity
1. Polygamy and Masculinity in China: Past and Present
2. The Manhood of a Pinshi (Poor Scholar): The Gendered Spaces in the Six Records of a Floating Life
3. Theater and the Text-Spatial Reproduction of Literati and Mercantile Masculinities in Nineteenth-Century Beijing
4. The Plebification of Male-Love in Late Ming Fiction: The Forgotten Tales of Longyang
5. Aestheticizing Masculinity in Honglou meng: Clothing, Dress, and Decoration
6. Drawings of a Life of "Unparalleled Glory": Ideal Manhood and the Rise of Pictorial Autobiographies in China
Part 2. Chinese Masculinity Today
7. Making Class and Gender: White-Collar Men in Postsocialist China
8. Corruption, Masculinity, and Jianghu Ideology in the PRC
9. The Postsocialist Working Class: Male Heroes in Jia Zhangke's Films
10. The Chinese Father: Masculinity, Conjugal Love, and Parental Involvement
11. All Dogs Deserve to Be Beaten: Negotiating Manhood and Nationhood in Chinese TV Dramas
12. The Anthropology of Chinese Masculinity in Taiwan and Hong Kong
Index

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