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Men and Masculinities in Contemporary China
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In Men and Masculinities in Contemporary China, Geng Song and Derek Hird offer an account of Chinese masculinities in media discourse and everyday life, covering masculinities on television, in lifestyle magazines, in cyberspace, at work, at leisure, and at home. No other work covers the forms and practices of men and masculinities in contemporary China so comprehensively. Through carefully exploring the global, regional and local influences on men and representations of men in postmillennial China, Song and Hird show that Chinese masculinity is anything but monolithic. They reveal a complex, shifting plurality of men and masculinities—from stay-at-home internet geeks to karaoke-singing, relationship-building businessmen—which contest and consolidate “conventional” notions of masculinity in multiple ways.
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- Authors
- Song, G., & Hird, D.
- Venue
- BRILL eBooks
- Publisher
- BRILL
- Published
- 2014-01-01
- OpenAlex
- W4300860150
- Cited by
- 204
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 29 · 2025: 25 · 2024: 22 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 24 · 2020: 21 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 11 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 3
- FWCI
- 8.07
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- BRILL eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender Roles and Identity Studies
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Media, Gender, and Advertising
- Keywords
- masculinity, Chinese men, television, lifestyle magazines, cyberspace, work and leisure, domestic life, gender norms, internet culture
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