ARTS2213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Upper Class, Soft Power, Rich Field
24 Sep 2018
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Chinese masculinity studies in the twenty-first century: westernizing, Easternizing and globalizing wen and wu- kam louie: most masculinities research focus on white western societies under the rubric of other minorities . Chinese masculinities is the dichotomy of wen (cultural literary attainment) and wu (martial or physical prowess): the way that wen and wu have evolved are due to the influences from the. West (japan) and the east (korea): the studies of chinese masculinities were limited on the significant number of white men in the colonies. This situation was particularly disastrous because women studies about china was already a rich field whilst masculinity studies were non-existent. Soft power and soft masculinity: soft power legitimates the translation and study of traditional works on. English scholars have explored the sexual practices of. For example there is much mystique about the size of the male sexual organ as a symbol of desirable manhood.
