EverydayMasculinitiesin21st-CenturyChina:TheMakingofAble-ResponsibleMenarguesthatamoraldimensioninChinesemasculinityisofgrowingsignificanceinfast-changingChina.‘Able-responsiblemen’―thosewhocancreatewealthandshoulderresponsibilities―havereplacedthe‘moneyedelite’oftheearlierreform-and-opening-uperaasthedominantmaleideal.Withvividandhighlyreadablecasestudies,Wongpresentsacompellingaccountoftheforcesthatcoercementoliveuptotheable-responsiblestandard.Shedemonstratestheimpactthispressurehasonthelivesofnotonlyboysandmen,butalsoonwomen,andshowshowitinvitesbothcomplicitandresistantreactions.Thebooklaysbarethesocio-politicalcontextthatnurturestheculturalexpressionsofhegemonicmasculinityundertheruleofXiJinping.Thepresidenthimselfhasemergedinpublicconsciousnessastheembodimentoftheidealable-responsibleman.
BasedonanthropologicalfieldworkinNanchong,Sichuan,thebookprovidesnewperspectivesonmanytopicalissuesthatChinafaces.Theseincludeurbanization,labourmigration,theone-childpolicy,loveandmarriage,genderandintergenerationaldynamics,hierarchicalmalerelationships,andtheriseofmassdisplaysofnationalism.
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