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Title Asian masculinities : the meaning and practice of manhood in China and Japan / edited by Kam Louie and Morris Low
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (258 pages)
Contents Chinese, Japanese and global masculine identities / Kam Louie -- "Beautiful boys made up as beautiful girls": anti-masculine taste in Qing China / Cuncun Wu -- Mr butterfly in defunct capital: "soft" masculinity and (mis)engendering China / Yiyan Wang -- Gay men, masculinity and the media in Japan / Mark McLelland -- The emperor's sons go to war: competing masculinities in modern Japan / Morris Low -- Sport and the construction of masculinity in the Japanese education system / Richard Light -- Creating corporate warriors: the "salaryman" and masculinity in Japan / Romit Dasgupta -- Rethinking male socialisation: life histories of Japanese male youth / Futoshi Taga -- The cooking man in modern Japanese literature / Tomoko Aoyama -- Desire and masculinity at the margins in Gu Cheng's ying'er / Simon Patton -- Male gender identity among Chinese male migrants / Ray Hibbins -- "Angry yellow men": cultural space for diasporic Chinese masculinities / Tseen Khoo
Summary A study of East Asian masculinities in an increasingly globalized Asia. It examines masculine ideals, homosexuality, women's perceptions of men, the role of sport and food, and Asian men in the Chinese diaspora
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Men -- China -- Social conditions
Men -- Japan -- Social conditions
Men -- China -- Identity
Men -- Japan -- Identity
Masculinity -- China
Masculinity -- Japan
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
Masculinity
Men -- Identity
Men -- Social conditions
Mannelijkheid.
Identiteit.
China
Japan
Form Electronic book
Author Louie, Kam
Low, Morris
LC no. 2002153798
ISBN 0203987934
9780203987933