Forging the male body: drill in the new armies -- Body, space, and daily life -- Dressed to kill: uniforms, masculinity, and military culture -- Making real men: military professionalism and martial spirit -- All men are soldiers: citizenship and military service -- School reforms and the education of citizen-soldiers
Summary
This study examines the cultural effects of China's adoption of a European military model in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It argues that there was a conceptual reconfiguration of Chinese masculinity and citizenship and focuses on how the body was conceived, shaped by physical fitness and medical practices, and controlled
