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Making National Heroes: The Exemplarist Production of Masculinities in Contemporary China

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Making National Heroes: The Exemplarist Production of Masculinities in Contemporary China - Lin, Jacqueline Zhenru
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Making National Heroes is an ethnography on the making of national heroes in the commemoration of the Second World War in contemporary China. Foregrounding the lived experience of men and women who participate in commemorative activities, it theorises how masculinity and nationalism entangle in recollecting war memories. Taking the line of feminist inquiry, this anthropological study develops an approach to capture the centrality of making exemplars in the realisation of hegemonic masculinities. It adds a gender ...

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Making National Heroes: The Exemplarist Production of Masculinities in Contemporary China 2024, Hong Kong University Press

ISBN-13: 9789888842759

Hardcover