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

ISBN: 9888528742

ISBN13: 9789888528745

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

A telling analysis of the formation and evolution of modern Chinese intellectual masculinities.

After its doors were forced open by the Opium Wars in the late Qing dynasty, China faced a crisis of masculinity that converged with its national crisis. The power of physical aggression increasingly overshadowed literary attainments and became a new imperative of male honor in early Republican China. Afflicted with anxiety about their increasingly...

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