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Masculinity, Marriage, and Rural Men in Urban China: Modest Expectations

Masculinity, Marriage, and Rural Men in Urban China: Modest Expectations

Gosper, Sarah

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Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (Asaa) East

General Gender StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesMen's Studies

ISBN10: 1032767944
ISBN13: 9781032767949
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 20 2026
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book explores the conjuncture and interrelationship between three so-called 'crises' facing Chinese society: a crisis of marriage, a crisis of masculinity and a crisis of mobility.

Based on sustained ethnographic research on unmarried lower-class rural men from two distinct social and class categories, namely migrant workers employed in the food delivery and express mail delivery industries and tertiary educated, white collar professionals, the book reveals how the increasing socio-economic precarity of rural men and their largely unrealised desires to marry and have children demonstrates a fundamental reconfiguration of Chinese masculinity and mobility in urban China and the social impact on central Chinese institutions. The book also reveals the futile efforts to fulfil hegemonic models of masculinity in contemporary China and addresses the heterogeneity of unmarried lower-class rural men as they navigate marriage, manhood and mobility.

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