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This chapter provides a summary of the emergence of Chinese masculinity studies in the Anglophone world in recent years and concludes that even though it is a rapidly growing field, good book-length studies specific to researching Chinese masculinity are still limited. The chapter then describes the contents of the book, indicating the reasons for...
The Impotence Epidemic: Men's Medicine and Sexual Desire in Contemporary China. EVERETT YUEHONG ZHANG. Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2015. xii + 288 pp. $25.95. ISBN 978-0-8223-5856-5 - Volume 223 - Kam Louie
This book explores how the traditional ideal of Chinese manhood the "wen" (cultural attainment) and "wu" (martial prowess) dyad has been transformed by the increasing integration of China in the international scene. It discusses how increased travel and contact between China and the West are having a profound impact; showing how increased interchan...
This ‘state of the field’ article on Chinese masculinity frames the English-language research on Chinese masculinity in the twenty-first century in the context of the rise of China and her use of ‘soft power’ in this millennium. The use of this soft power coincides with the increasing wealth and mobility of educated Chinese who are traveling to the...
This paper argues that the new forms of communication have had a major impact on gender and sexual ideologies and practices across East Asia. In particular, it focuses on the impact that the new media had on Chinese masculinities in the post-Mao years, a period that coincided with the Asian economic miracle and the rise of China. This was also the...
In the last century, scholars and politicians in China have attempted both in theory and in practice to advocate and carry out radically different social policies and political reforms, often in the name of Confucius. With China's rise and her increasing international power and status in recent years, Chinese policy makers have again used the Confu...
Hong Kong as a world city draws on a rich variety of foundational “texts” in film, fiction, architecture, and other forms of visual culture. The city has been a cultural fault-line for centuries—a translation space where Chinese-ness is interpreted for “Westerners” and Western-ness is translated for Chinese. Though constantly refreshed by its Chine...
Asian Students in Changing Australian Educational ContextsThe CHC Student: From Deficit to Surplus ValueThe CHC Student and ‘Deep Learning’Assumed Values of Western Education‘Critical Thinking’ and Other ‘Western’ ValuesImplications for TeachersReferences
By the start of the twenty-first century, China’s status as a major international economic and political power was beyond dispute. China now manufactures everything from microchips to motor vehicles, and the ’Made in China’ label is found in all corners of the world. Along with this economic influence, China’s role in global political and cultural...
Chinese cinema continues to go from strength to strength. After art-house hits like Chen Kaige's Yellow Earth (1984) and Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love (2000), the Oscar-winning success of Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000) disproved the old myth that subtitled films could not succeed at the multiplex. Chinese Films in Focus II upd...
Discourses of ‘internationalisation’ of the curriculum of Western universities often describe the philosophies and paradigms of ‘Western’ and ‘Eastern’ scholarship in binary terms, such as ‘deep/surface’, ‘adversarial/harmonious’, and ‘independent/dependent’. In practice, such dichotomies can be misleading. They do not take account of the complexit...
This paper focuses on the Chinese scholars who have returned to China in the current millennium. Of all the Chinese who have returned to China from abroad since the inception of the People's Republic, this group is the largest. Here, I focus on those that left Mainland China after the Cultural Revolution, more specifically those that left after the...
B. A. HUSSAINMIYA. The Brunei Constitution of 1959: an Inside History. Bandar Seri Begawan: Brunei Press, 2000. xvi, 81 pp. B$8.90, paper.DAVID E. POLLARD. The Chinese Essay. Hong Kong: Research Centre for Translation, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999. US$50.00, hardcover.EVA HUNG (ed). City Women: contemporary Taiwan Women Writers. Hong Kong:...
WEN‐HSIN YEH (ed). Becoming Chinese: passages to Modernity and Beyond. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. x, 435 pp. US$55.00, hardcover; US$22.00, paper.CLAIRE HUOT. China's New Cultural Scene: a Handbook of Changes. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. viii, 258 pp. US$18.95, paper.PANG‐YUAN CHI and DAVID DER‐WEI WANG (eds). Chinese...
SUEHIRO KITAGUCHI (trans. Alastair McLauchlan). An Introduction to the Buraku Issue: Questions and Answers. Richmond, Surrey: Japan Library, 1999. 213 pp. £35.00, hardcover.
WANG LING‐CHI and WANG GUNGWU (eds). The Chinese Diaspora: selected Essays. Two Volumes. Singapore: Times Academic Press, 1998. Vol. 1: xiv, 287 pp. US$39.00, hardcover; Vol. 2...
SHARON KINSELLA. Adult Manga: culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000. xii, 228 pp. £12.99, paper.STEPHEN ESKILDSEN. Asceticism in Early Taoist Religion. Albany, NY: State University of New York, 1998. vii, 229 pp. US$19.85, paper.H. A. J. KLOOSTER. Bibliography of the Indonesian Revolution, Publicat...
In the early decades of the 20th century, Chinese identities were subjected to profound challenges posed by the West. Traditional Chinese linkages between gender and power were shaken by contact with aggressive western imperialism. Although there are numerous studies on this impact, almost nothing has been written on its effects on the Chinese cons...
This paper examines the sexual composition of the hero ( yingxiong ) in traditional China and how this sexuality is projected onto the political plane. Existing scholarship on the Chinese hero has provided Sinology with excellent material on a number of issues, from those which link the hero with Chinese concepts of chivalry, to those which discuss...
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (QUEENSLAND BRANCH) and CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF AUSTRALIA‐;ASIA RELATIONS. Australia and the Asia‐Pacific Challenge: Queensland Business in Asia. Brisbane: Griffith University, Australia‐Asia Papers no. 77, 1996. 24 pp. A$10.00, paper.EDMUND S.K. FUNG and CHEN JIE. The Attitudes of the PRC Chinese Towar...
Ever since Confucius remarked that he would not discuss the strange and supernatural, Chinese scholars have delighted in jotting down sensational and unusual events. This is such a favorite pastime that at least two books with the title Zibuyu (What the master refused to say) appeared in imperial times. The one by Yuan Mei (1916–97) has become a bi...
This article uses the 14 stories from “Strange Tales from Strange Lands” ( Yixiang yiwen ) by Zheng Wanlong to discuss the problematic relationship between depictions of primitivism and the search for essential Chineseness within what has become known as “root-seeking literature” ( xungen wenxue ). It shows that the dichotomous relationship between...