East Asian Men

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxv

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2. Introduction

   • Xiaodong Lin, Chris Haywood, Mairtin Mac an Ghaill

   Pages 1-10

3. Being and Becoming: Subjectivities, Identifications and Intimacy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Single Male Rural-Urban Migrant Workers and the Negotiation of Masculinity in China

      • Xiaodong Lin

      Pages 13-30

   3. Acting Straight? Non-heterosexual Salarymen Working with Heteronormativity in the Japanese Workplace

      • Romit Dasgupta

      Pages 31-50

   4. Negotiating Family/Filial Responsibilities: Reflexivity, Tradition, and Taiwanese (Younger) Professional Men

      • Bo-Wei Chen, Mairtin Mac an Ghaill

      Pages 51-67

   5. Male Homosexuality in Hong Kong: A 20-Year Review of Public Attitudes Towards Homosexuality and Experiences of Discrimination Self-Reported by Gay Men

      • Yiu Tung Suen, Miu Yin Wong

      Pages 69-81

4. Representations: Producing and Consuming Sexual Masculinities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83

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   2. Sinoglossia Incarnate: The Entanglements of Castration across the Pacific

      • Howard Chiang

      Pages 85-105

   3. “Same-Sex Wedding”, Queer Performance and Spatial Tactics in Beijing

      • Hongwei Bao

      Pages 107-121

   4. “Cinderella” in Reverse: Eroticizing Bodily Labor of Sympathetic Men in K-Pop Dance Practice Video

      • Chuyun Oh

      Pages 123-141

   5. “Branding Men”: Exploring Men, Masculinity and Thai Alcohol Brands in East Asian Global Markets

      • Jhitsayarat Siripai, Chris Haywood

      Pages 143-161

5. Emerging Masculinities: Configuring Men’s Futures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163

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   2. Herbivore Masculinities in Post-Millennial Japan

      • Justin Charlebois

      Pages 165-181

   3. Emerging Heterosexualities in an Era of TV Dating: Exploring Young Chinese Men’s Experiences of Love and Intimacy

      • Chao Yang

      Pages 183-198

   4. Weapons of the Weak Soldiers: Military Masculinity and Embodied Resistance in Taiwanese Conscription

      • Ying-Chao Kao

      Pages 199-218

   5. Beyond the Celebration of Losers: The Construction of diaosi Masculinity in Contemporary Chinese Youth Culture

      • Siyang Cao

      Pages 219-235

   6. Pathways Toward Progressive Gender Consciousness for Young Men in Taiwan

      • Herng-Dar Bih

      Pages 237-258

6. Back Matter

   Pages 259-264

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This book provides a fresh and contemporary take on the study of men and masculinity. It highlights new and exciting approaches to sexuality, desire, men and masculinity in East Asian contexts, focusing on the interconnections between them. In doing so, it re-examines the key concepts that underpin studies of masculinity, such as homophobia, homosociality and heteronormativity. Developing new ways of thinking about masculinity in local contexts, it fills a significant lacuna in contemporary scholarship. This thought-provoking work will appeal to students and scholars of gender studies, cultural studies and the wider social sciences. 

• Gender
• Heterosexuality
• Homosexuality
• Heteronormativity
• Family
• Queer Studies
• Popular culture
• Branding
• Intimacy
• Youth culture
• sexual behaviour

“The overall volume provides a strong sense that changing economic, political and cultural conditions in East Asia have been distilled through aspects of men’s experiences that are personal, emotional, erotic and changeable, and ambivalent to some of the analytic frames commonly used in scholarship to consider gender. … the volume lays important groundwork for further examining East Asian men’s experiences in closer relation to the local and indigenous traditions of self-making that characterise East Asian history.” (Philip Martin, NORMA, August, 2017)

“By examining the interactions between masculinity and sexuality in diverse East Asian localities such as the PRC, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea and Japan, the informative essays in this book shift attention away from the much-studied West to this dynamic region. As well as analyses of usual male concerns such as dating and career, the book also presents a more nuanced picture of the lives of Asian men by delving into various manifestations of non-heterosexuality in this part of the world. It is timely and enlightening.”     (Professor Kam Louie, The University of Hong Kong)

• Department of Sociology, University of York, York, United Kingdom

  Xiaodong Lin

• Media and Cultural Studies, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

  Chris Haywood

• Graduate School, Newman University, Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Mairtin Mac an Ghaill

Xiaodong Lin is a Lecturer in Sociology at the Department of Sociology, University of York, UK.


Chris Haywood is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University, UK.


Mairtin Mac an Ghaill is a Professor at Newman University, UK.

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