Mastery of words and swords : negotiating intellectual masculinities in modern China, 1890s-1930s / Jun Lei.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lin, Sanwei, author.

Series:

Transnational Asian masculinities.

Hong Kong scholarship online.

Transnational Asian masculinities

Hong Kong scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Masculinity--China--History--20th century.

Masculinity.

Intellectuals--China--History--20th century.

Intellectuals.

Violence--Social aspects--China.

Violence.

China--Intellectual life--20th century.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white) ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2022]

Summary:

The crisis of masculinity surfaced and converged with the crisis of the nation in the late Qing, after the doors of China were forced open by Opium Wars. The power of physical aggression increasingly overshadowed literary attainments and became a new imperative of male honor in the late Qing and early Republican China. Afflicted with anxiety and indignation about their increasingly effeminate image as perceived by Western colonial powers, Chinese intellectuals strategically distanced themselves from the old literati and reassessed their positions vis-à-vis violence. In this book, Jun Lei explores the formation and evolution of modern Chinese intellectual masculinities as constituted in racial, gender, and class discourses mediated by the West and Japan.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Part I: Texts and Contexts

1. Performing Chinese Masculinities on the World Stage: An Introduction

2. Violence and Its Antidotes: Theorizing Modern Chinese Masculinities

Part II: Intra-gender and Inter-gender Relations: Differentiations, Negotiations, and Regulations

3. The Sick, the Weak, and the Perilous: Colonial Stereotypes and Martialized Intellectual Masculinity in Late Qing and Early Republican China

4. New Men of Feelings: “Freedom of Love,” Modern Ethics, and Neo-romantic Masculinity of the May Fourth Generation

5. Consuming the Modern Girl: Middlebrow Literary Masculinity and Surrogate Violence in Shanghai New Sensationalism

6. Optical Scientism: Editorial Authority, Male Subjectivity, and Policing “Female Monstrosity” in Shanghai Print Media

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 13, 2022).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9789888754540

9888754548

OCLC:

1302574171