Kam Louie

Theorising Chinese Masculinity

Society and Gender in China

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a comprehensive analysis of Chinese masculinity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 561g
• ISBN-13: 9780521806213
• ISBN-10: 0521806216
• Artikelnr.: 22098347

Inhaltsangabe

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.