LEADER 05626nam 22007454a 450 001 9910457562203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-11239-5 010 $a0-203-98793-4 035 $a(CKB)1000000000360284 035 $a(EBL)240462 035 $a(OCoLC)252961059 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000106398 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11133395 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000106398 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10106672 035 $a(PQKB)10871564 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC240462 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL240462 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10096999 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL11239 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000360284 100 $a20021112d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aAsian masculinities$b[electronic resource] $ethe meaning and practice of manhood in China and Japan /$fedited by Kam Louie and Morris Low 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cRoutledge$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (264 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-51108-9 311 $a0-415-29838-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; ASIAN MASCULINITIES; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Chinese, Japanese and global masculine identities; East Asians as minorities; Spotlight on Chinese masculinity; Containment and Asian sexuality; Masculinity and the nation; Westernisation, Asianisation and hybridity; PART I ""Soft"" masculinities; 2 ""Beautiful boys made up as beautiful girls"": anti-masculine taste in Qing China; Introduction; Problematising gender categories in late imperial China; Gender representation in Ming and Qing dynasty romantic fiction 327 $aThe case of Jia BaoyuMoral dimensions of male beauty; Alternative dimensions of male beauty?; Beijing opera, cross-dressing and ""flower guides""; Conclusion; 3 Mr Butterfly in Defunct Capital: ""soft"" masculinity and (mis)engendering China; Scholar-beauty romance: the triumph of ""soft"" masculinity; The talented communist scholars; Cultural roots and masculinity; The talented scholar in Defunct Capital; Writing and ""soft"" masculinity; Mr Butterfly and (mis)engendering China; 4 Gay men, masculinity and the media in Japan; Introduction; Japan's gay boom 327 $aRepresentations of gay men in gay mediaJapan's gay Net; Conclusion; PART II Martial valour; 5 The Emperor's sons go to war: competing masculinities in modern Japan; Introduction; Turning white; Reviving bushido?; White and bright; Reproducing masculinities; Competing masculinities on the battlefield; Under interrogation; In the brothel; In love; The last samurai; Conclusion; 6 Sport and the construction of masculinity in the Japanese edugation system; Introduction; Culture, sport and embodied masculinity; Social analyses of game style and tactics; Rugby union football in Japan 327 $aCulture and game style in Japanese school and university rugbyGaman: obligation, loyalty and self-control; Conclusion; 7 Creating corporate warriors: the ""salaryman"" and masculinity in Japan; Introduction; Salaryman masculinity: demarcations and delineations; Modernity, the nation-state and salaryman masculinity; Recreating and resisting salaryman masculinity through popular culture; The JTB man; Decline of the salaryman; Conclusion; PART III Tracing lives; 8 Rethinking male socialisation: life histories of Japanese male youth; Fluctuating masculinity in contemporary Japan 327 $aResearch on men's gender formationThe case studies; Conclusion; 9 The cooking man in modern Japanese literature; Food and masculinity after defeat, or the Confucian teachings of Cantonese cooking; Global wandering and the construction of masculine cooking; The significance of wen in global wandering; Cooking man loves guts: the recipe for wu; Women's response to cooking man's discourse; Postmodern cooking man; 10 Desire and masculinity at the margins in Gu Cheng's Ying'er; Introduction: desiring subjects; Background 1: ""psychic distance travelled""; Background 2: ""a box marked G"" 327 $aText 1: multiple masculinities 330 $aThis book shows how East Asian masculinities are being formed and transformed as Asia is increasingly globalized. The gender roles performed by Chinese and Japanese men are examined not just as they are lived in Asia, but also in the West. The essays collected here enhance current understandings of East Asian identities and cultures as well as Western conceptions of gender and sexuality. 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