| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Transnational Asian masculinities |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Boring, Useless: Masculinity and Crisis in Zhu Wen's Fiction -- 3. The Dense Scent of Hormones: Phallic Creativity in Feng Tang's Beijing Trilogy -- 4. Floating Men: Xu Zechen's Migrants -- 5. The Right Road: The Han Han Phenomenon -- 6. Conclusion: Rebel Men -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Masculinity, fast-changing and regularly declared to be in the throes of crisis, is attracting more popular and scholarly debate in China than ever before. At the same time, Chinese literature since 1989 has been characterized as brimming with countercultural 'attitude'. This book probes the link between literary rebellion and manhood in China, showing how male writers, as they critique the outcomes of decades of market reform, also ask the same question: how best to be a man in the new postsocialist order? |
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Han, Han, 1982- -- Criticism and interpretation
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Xu, Zechen, 1978- -- Criticism and interpretation
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Feng, Tang, 1971- -- Criticism and interpretation
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Zhu, Wen, 1967- -- Criticism and interpretation
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Zhu, Wen, 1967- |
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Han, Han, 1982- |
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Men in literature.
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Masculinity in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese.
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Men in literature
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Masculinity in literature
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Literature: history & criticism.
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Literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789888754052 |
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9789888754779 |
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9888754777 |
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988875405X |
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