| Description |
1 online resource (233 p.) |
| Series |
Transnational Asian Masculinities Ser |
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Transnational Asian Masculinities Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- Series -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Texts and Contexts -- 1. Performing Chinese Masculinities on the World Stage -- 2. Violence and Its Antidotes -- Part II. Intra-gender and Inter-gender Relations -- 3. The Sick, the Weak, and the Perilous -- 4. New Men of Feelings -- 5. Consuming the Modern Girl -- 6. Optical Scientism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
The crisis of masculinity surfaced and converged with the crisis of the nation in the late Qing, after the doors of China were forced open by Opium Wars. The power of physical aggression increasingly overshadowed literary attainments and became a new imperative of male honor in the late Qing and early Republican China. Afflicted with anxiety and indignation about their increasingly effeminate image as perceived by Western colonial powers, Chinese intellectuals strategically distanced themselves from the old literati and reassessed their positions vis-à-vis violence. In Mastery of Words and Swo |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789888754540 |
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9888754548 |
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