Lo Excess and Masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4384-3210-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 251 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Global Modernity

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lo, Kwai-Cheung

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Kwai-Cheung Lo is Professor of English and Humanities at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is the author of Chinese Face/Off: The Transnational Popular Culture of Hong Kong.