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In Masculinity Besieged? Xueping Zhong looks at Chinese literature and films produced
during the 1980s to examine male subjectivities in contemporary China. Reading through a …

This dissertation is about Chinese masculinity. It will raise the issue of Chinese masculinity
as it became problematic in the mid-1980s, the first time in the twothousand-year history of …

Literature is a notable addition to the growing body of scholarship on masculinities in
contemporary China. Theoretically informed, cogently argued, and gracefully written, it …

Is there a male tradition in modern Chinese literature? The question, constructed as a
parallel to Lydia Liu's question in the preceding chapter, may appear ridiculous. 1 After all …

Masculinity, fast-changing and regularly declared to be in the throes of crisis, is attracting
more popular and scholarly debate in China than ever before. At the same time, Chinese …

This dissertation studies the literary representations of men in Chinese literature of the
1980s. It focuses on the relationship between anxiety felt by Chinese (male) intellectuals …

Why did traditional Chinese literati so often identify themselves with women in their writing?
What can this tell us about how they viewed themselves as men and how they understood …

China scholars from multiple disciplines have demonstrated the correlation between the
new gender order and the changing world order in the turbulent times of late Qing and early …

Alla base di questo elaborato c'è l'interesse per il tema dell'androginia, ovvero dell'unione
equilibrata di caratteristiche maschili e femminili in un singolo individuo, nella Cina …