Masculinity Besieged? : Issues of Modernity and Male Subjectivity in Chinese Literature of the Late Twentieth Century

by Zhong, Xueping

• ISBN13: 9780822324065
• ISBN10: 0822324067
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"This is an outstanding book. Rarely does one come across a work in the China field that considers gender and related theoretical issues with as deep a sense of history as does this one. Zhong's scholarship provides us with extraordinary new insights into the cultural politics of post-Mao China in the 1980s."--Lydia Liu, University of California, Berkeley

Author Biography

Xueping Zhong is Assistant Professor in the Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literatures at Tufts University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(14)
Masculinity Besieged? Toward an Understanding of Chinese Modernity and Male Subjectivity	15	(37)
Sexuality and Male Desire for ``Potency''	52	(35)
From Heroes to Adjuncts, Nobodies, and Antiheroes: The Politics of (Male) Marginality	87	(32)
Zazhong gaoliang and the Male Search for Masculinity	119	(31)
Manhood, Cultural Roots, and National Identity	150	(21)
Afterword	171	(2)
Notes	173	(18)
Bibliography	191	(8)
Index	199