Men and Masculinities in Contemporary China

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-26489-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Women and Gender in China Studies

In Men and Masculinities in Contemporary China, Geng Song and Derek Hird offer an account of Chinese masculinities in media discourse and everyday life, covering masculinities on television, in lifestyle magazines, in cyberspace, at work, at leisure, and at home. No other work covers the forms and practices of men and masculinities in contemporary China so comprehensively. Through carefully exploring the global, regional and local influences on men and representations of men in postmillennial China, Song and Hird show that Chinese masculinity is anything but monolithic. They reveal a complex, shifting plurality of men and masculinities—from stay-at-home internet geeks to karaoke-singing, relationship-building businessmen—which contest and consolidate “conventional” notions of masculinity in multiple ways.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Song, Geng

Hird, Derek

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Chinese Masculinity: Is There Such a Thing?
1 Masculinities on Television
2 Masculinities in Lifestyle Magazines
3 Masculinities in Cyberspace
4 Masculinities at Work
5 Masculinities at Leisure
6 Masculinities at Home
Epilogue: Performing Manhood in Contemporary China
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Geng Song, Ph.D. (2000), University of Hong Kong, is Associate Professor of China Studies and Translation Studies at that university. Among his publications are The Fragile Scholar (HKU Press, 2004) and Rethinking Chinese Television (Routledge, forthcoming).

Derek Hird, Ph.D. (2009), University of Westminster, is Lecturer in Chinese and Research Fellow in Asian Studies at that university. He has published several articles on Chinese men and masculinities, mostly with a focus on white-collar men.