- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (1 PDF (vi, 254 pages) :) : color illustrations.
- Summary
- The Cosmopolitan Dream presents the broad patterns in the transformations of mainland Chinese masculinity over recent years, covering both representations (in film, fiction, and on television) and the lived experiences of Chinese men on four continents. Exposure to transnational influences has made Chinese notions of masculinity more cosmopolitan than ever before, yet the configurations of these hybrid masculinities retain the imprint of Chinese historical models. With the increasing interconnectivity of markets around the world, the hegemonic mode of manhood is now a highly mobile transnational business form of masculinity. However, the fusion of this kind of cosmopolitanism with Chinese characteristics has not diminished the conventional class and gender privileges for educated men. On the other hand, the traditionally prized intellectual masculinity in Chinese culture, which did not hold commerce in high regard, has reconciled with today's business values. Together these factors shape the outlook of the contemporary generation of Chinese elites. At the same time globalization has increased the cross-country mobility of blue-collar Chinese men, who may possess a masculine ideal that is different from their white-collar counterparts. Therefore it is important to examine various types of masculinity with the recent, reform-era mainland Chinese migration. The migrant man--whether he is a worker, student, pop idol, or writer (all cases studied in this volume)--could face challenges to his masculinity based on his race, class, intimate partners, or fatherhood. The strategies adopted by the Chinese men to reinvent their masculine identities in these stories offer much insight into the complex connections between masculinity and the rapid socioeconomic developments of postsocialist China.
- Series Statement
- Transnational Asian masculinities
- Uniform Title
- Cosmopolitan Dream (Online)
- Transnational Asian masculinities.
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Subject
- Note
- Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record.
- Contents
- Introduction : transnational Chinese masculinities in a global age -- Derek Hird and Geng Song -- part I. Representing Chinese men transnationally. 1. Cosmopolitanism with Chinese characteristics : transnational male images in Chinese TV dramas / Geng Song -- 2. Order restored? Chinese masculinities in the German crime television series Tatort / Arnhilt Johanna Hoefle -- 3. Transnational Chinese masculinity in film representation / Sheldon Lu -- 4. Haunted Chinese gay identity : sexuality, masculinity, and class in Beijing story / Hongwei Bao -- 5. A free life : transnational reconstruction of Chinese wen masculinity / Lezhou Su -- 6. Global and local phallic creativity : intertextuality in Feng Tang's construction of masculinity / Pamela Hunt -- part II. Enacting transnational Chinese masculinities. 7. Persona, politics, and Chinese masculinity in Japan : the case of Li Xiaomu / Jamie Coates -- 8. Tasting food, tasting nostalgia : Cai Lan's "culinary masculinity" / Jin Feng -- 9. Idealizing masculinity through representation of fatherhood : negotiating transcultural masculinities in Dad, where are we going? / Lin Song -- 10. Just fathers : negotiating Chinese fatherhood from afar / Miriam Driessen -- 11. Distant husbands, masculine helpers : men, masculinity, and sexuality in the family strategy of flexible citizenship / Tingyu Kang -- 12. "North American despicable man" : race, class, and the (re)making of Chinese diasporic masculinities in the United States / Xia Zhang.
- OCLC
- ssj0002137683
- Title
The Cosmopolitan Dream [electronic resource] : Transnational Chinese Masculinities in a Global Age / edited by Derek Hird and Geng Song.
- Imprint
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Press, [2018] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
- Series
Transnational Asian masculinities
Transnational Asian masculinities.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Song, Geng.
Hird, Derek.
Project Muse.
- Other Form:
Print version: 9789888455850