Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1: Late Imperial Chinese Masculinity
6. 1. Polygamy and Masculinity in China: Past and Present 11
7. 2. The Manhood of a Pinshi (Poor Scholar): The Gendered Spaces in the Six Records of a Floating Life 34
8. 3. Theater and the Text-Spatial Reproduction of Literati and Mercantile Masculinities in Nineteenth-Century Beijing 51
9. 4. The Plebification of Male-Love in Late Ming Fiction: The Forgotten Tales of Longyang 72
10. 5. Aestheticizing Masculinity in Honglou meng: Clothing, Dress, and Decoration 90
11. 6. Drawings of a Life of “Unparalleled Glory”: Ideal Manhood and the Rise of Pictorial Autobiographies in China 113
12. Part 2: Chinese Masculinity Today
13. 7. Making Class and Gender: White-Collar Men in Postsocialist China 135
14. 8. Corruption, Masculinity, and Jianghu Ideology in the PRC 157
15. 9. The Postsocialist Working Class: Male Heroes in Jia Zhangke’s Films 173
16. 10. The Chinese Father: Masculinity, Conjugal Love, and Parental Involvement 186
17. 11. All Dogs Deserve to Be Beaten: Negotiating Manhood and Nationhood in Chinese TV Dramas 204
18. 12. The Anthropology of Chinese Masculinity in Taiwan and Hong Kong 220
19. Index 245