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

by Jun Lei

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9888528742
• ISBN13: 9789888528745
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.2"