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Mastery of Words and Swords: Negotiating Intellectual Masculinities in Modern China, 1890s-1930s

Mastery of Words and Swords: Negotiating Intellectual Masculinities in Modern China, 1890s-1930s

Lei, Jun

Hardcover

Series: Transnational Asian Masculinities

Chinese HistoryGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 9888528742
ISBN13: 9789888528745
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Published: Dec 25 2021
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.91 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The crisis of masculinity surfaced and converged with the crisis of the nation in the late Qing, after the doors of China were forced open by Opium Wars. The power of physical aggression increasingly overshadowed literary attainments and became a new imperative of male honor in the late Qing and early Republican China. Afflicted with anxiety and indignation about their increasingly effeminate image as perceived by Western colonial powers, Chinese intellectuals strategically distanced themselves from the old literati and reassessed their positions vis-àagrave;-vis violence. In Mastery of Words and Swords: Negotiating Intellectual Masculinities in Modern China, 1890s-1930s, Jun Lei explores the formation and evolution of modern Chinese intellectual masculinities as constituted in racial, gender, and class discourses mediated by the West and Japan. This book brings to light a new area of interest in the Man Question within gender studies in which women have typically been the focus. To fully reveal the evolving masculine models of a scholar-warrior, this book employs an innovative methodology that combines theoretical vigor, archival research, and analysis of literary texts and visuals. Situating the changing inter- and intra-gender relations in modern Chinese history and Chinese literary and cultural modernism, the book engages critically with male subjectivity in relation to other pivotal issues such as semi-coloniality, psychoanalysis, modern love, feminism, and urbanization.

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