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Record Nr.

UNINA9910963681703321

Autore

Lo Kwai-Cheung

Titolo

Excess and masculinity in Asian cultural productions / / Kwai-Cheung Lo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2010

ISBN

9781438432106

1438432100

9781441669575

1441669574

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in global modernity

Disciplina

305.38/8951

Soggetti

Civilization, Modern - Asia - 21st century

Civilization, Modern - China - 21st century

Masculinity in popular culture - China

Popular culture - China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-239) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- EXCESS AND MASCULINITY IN ASIAN CULTURAL PRODUCTIONS -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: Asian Modernity and Its Unassimilable Male Excess -- 1. Ethnic Ghosts in the Asian Shell: Racial Crossover and Transnational Cinema -- 2. The Racial Other and Violent Manhood in Murakami Haruki's Writings about China -- 3. Becoming-Woman in the Male Writings of Hong Kong Chinese Society -- 4. Fighting Female Masculinity: Modernity and Antagonism in Woman Warrior Films -- 5. Ethnic Excess in Films about Minorities -- 6. Clean Modernization, the Web-Marriage Game, and Chinese Men in Virtual Reality -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

Innovative analysis of the relationship of gender to East Asian economic development.