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

• Autore: Lo Kwai-Cheung
• Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (255 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.38/8951
• Soggetto topico: Civilization, Modern - Asia - 21st century; Civilization, Modern - China - 21st century; Masculinity in popular culture - China; Popular culture - China
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Excess and masculinity in Asian cultural productions
• ISBN: 1-4384-3210-0; 1-4416-6957-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808037103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: SUNY series in global modernity.