Excess and Masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions
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Excess and Masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions

  1. 251 pages
  2. English
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Excess and Masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions

About this book

In Excess and Masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions, Kwai-Cheung Lo explores the excesses associated with the phenomenal economic growth in East Asia, including surplus capital, environmental waste, and the unbalanced ratio of men to women in the region, connecting the production of capitalist "excess" to the production of new forms of transnational Asian masculinity. Lo draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis and Marxist ideas as well as gender theory in his examination of East Asian cultural products such as religious and parenting books, transgender literary fantasies, travel writing, gangster movies, female action heroes, and online games. Through this analysis, Lo argues that the excess of Asia's "masculine" modernization throws into relief the internal inconsistencies of capitalism itself, posing new challenges to the order of global capitalism and suggesting new possible configurations of global modernity.

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Table of contents

  1. Series Page
  2. INTRODUCTION Asian Modernity and Its Unassimilable Male Excess
  3. CHAPTER 1 Ethnic Ghosts in the Asian Shell
  4. CHAPTER 2 The Racial Other and Violent Manhood in Murakami Haruki’s Writings about China
  5. CHAPTER 3 Becoming-Woman in the Male Writings of Hong Kong Chinese Society
  6. CHAPTER 4 Fighting Female Masculinity
  7. CHAPTER 5 Ethnic Excess in Films about Minorities
  8. CHAPTER 6 Clean Modernization, the Web-Marriage Game, and Chinese Men in Virtual Reality
  9. Notes
  10. Works Cited