Chinese Masculinities in a Globalizing World

ISBN-13: 9781138577930 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 168 str.

Kam Louie

Opis

This book explores how the traditional ideal of Chinese manhood, the fragile scholar hero of "wen" as superior to the "wu" of marital prowess, has been transformed by increasing integration of Chinese men into global culture. It discusses how increased travel and contact with the West, where "wu" figures are a more significant ideal, are shifting the balance and prompting a hybridization of Chinese cultural norms, whilst emphasis on wealth creation in China has also incorporated business skills and monetary power into the concept of "wen" itself. The book shows that in a very short period China has changed from a relatively isolated state with stable and established cultural ideals, to being greatly globalized.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Confucius the Wen Man: Unlikely Pin-up Boy for ‘Brand China’  3. Hero: Re-working the Wen-Wu Ideal for China and Abroad  4. Floating Life: Nostalgia for the Confucian Way in the Suburbs  5. Decentring Orientalist and Ocker Masculinities in Australia  6. Angry Chinamen: Turtle Eggs in Australia and China  7. Globe-trotting Chinese Entrepreneurs: Wealthy, Worldly and Worthy  8. Chinese, Japanese and Global Masculine Identities  9. The Power of the Popular: Reconsidering Chinese Masculinity Ideals

O autorze

Kam Louie is Adjunct Professor in the School of Humanities Languages at UNSW and Honorary Professor in the School of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong