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

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 ear...

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Autor principal: Lei, Jun
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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-à-vis violence. In Mastery of Words and Swo.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (232 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9789888754540