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Author Lo, Kwai-Cheung.

Title Excess and masculinity in Asian cultural productions / Kwai-Cheung Lo
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 243 pages) : illustrations
Series SUNY series in global modernity
SUNY series in global modernity.
Contents Introduction : Asian modernity and it unassimilable male excess -- Ethnic ghosts in the Asian shell : racial crossover and transnational cinema -- The racial Other and violent manhood in Murakami Haruki's writings about China -- Becoming-woman in the male writings of Hong Kong Chinese society -- Fighting female masculinity : modernity and antagonism in woman warrior films -- Ethnic excess in films about minorities -- Clean modernization, the web-marriage game, and Chinese men in virtual reality
Summary In Excess and Masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions, Kwai-Cheung Lo explores the excesses associated with the phenomenal economic growth in East Asia, including surplus capital, environmental waste, and the unbalanced ratio of men to women in the region, connecting the production of capitalist "excess" to the production of new forms of transnational Asian masculinity. Lo draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis and Marxist ideas as well as gender theory in his examination of East Asian cultural products such as religious and parenting books, transgender literary fantasies, travel writing, gangster movies, female action heroes, and online games. Through this analysis, Lo argues that the excess of Asia's "masculine" modernization throws into relief the internal inconsistencies of capitalism itself, posing new challenges to the order of global capitalism and suggesting new possible configurations of global modernity --Book Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-239) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Masculinity in popular culture -- China
Popular culture -- China
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
Civilization
Masculinity in popular culture
Popular culture
SUBJECT China -- Civilization -- 21st century
Asia -- Civilization -- 21st century
Subject Asia
China
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009052584
ISBN 9781441669575
1441669574
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