...Sophie Volpp Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 The Discourse on Male Marriage: Li Yu's 'A Male Mencius's Mother" Sophie Volpp Difference is an effect of inventive syncretism.- James Clifford, "On Ethno- graphic Authority...

...Jing Tsu 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Perversions of Masculinity: The Masochistic Male Subject in Yu Dafu, Guo Moruo, and Freud Jing Tsu The celebrated Chinese poet Xu Zhimo once compared the writings of his contemporary Yu Dafu to the sores...

...Wenqing Kang This essay analyzes the language and representation of male same-sex relations in major urban tabloid newspapers, other journalistic writings, and legal discourses. It argues that the Western sexological concept of homosexuality was accepted and incorporated in early-twentieth-century...

...Kyung Hyun Kim 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Male Crisis in New Korean Cinema: Reading the Early Films of Park Kwang-su Kyung Hyun Kim Park Kwang-su’s film Chilsu and Mansu [Ch’il-su wa Man-su] (1988) depicts the lives oftwo working-class...

...Reuben Ramas Cañete The understanding of male sexual labor commodification in Philippine realist film has often been linked exclusively to economic and political determinations associated with authoritarianism and migrant labor from the 1980s to the 1990s. Little discussion has been focused...

...Wenqing Kang Abstract This article is part of a larger research project that traces the history of male same‐sex relations in China during the Mao era, a topic on which virtually no scholarship is currently available. The Chinese government named the Cultural Revolution (1966–76) “ten years...

... well-recognized contribution to the films is her achievement in Kabuki acting. The Kabuki theater is an all-male theater, with its onnagata actors playing women's roles. Despite the intermittent presence of female Kabuki actors over the history of Kabuki, their achievements have not received...

...Celine Parreñas Shimizu For the first heterosexual male porn star of Asian descent in the West, Keni Styles's tumblr project shows the full frontal power of the face so as to increase the representations of diverse Asian and Asian American male sexualities online. In his new video Look, I'm Azn...

... and national community membership emerged under the Guomindang (GMD) regime. The law confirmed male supremacy in the constitution of the national community by embracing married women's outsiderness and upholding the system of patrilineality. In the new millennium, legal reforms pursued by social movements have...

...Hyon Joo Yoo Murphree In this essay, I formulate newly revised notions of subjectivity and the body, especially in what I define as “moribund masculinity.” The term refers to masculine subjectivity that refuses to fulfill the economic and ideological demand made on the male body by global...

...Yoon Sun Yang Yi Injik's Tears of Blood (1906) is the pioneering piece of “new fiction” ( sin sosŏl ). As many works of this male-authored genre revolve around women's conflicts regarding marriage, family, and home life, literary critics often condescendingly disregard them as domestic fiction...

...James Reichert “ Oyama and Anxieties about the Feminization of Japanese Film” offers an alternative perspective on the gender politics behind the switch from oyama , or male actors specializing in female roles, to actresses in early Japanese film. To date, most treatments of this issue have...

... Parties”) in the hope of attracting the “creative class” to the island and its economy, only to reinstate prohibitions when those burgeoning activities were seen as conflicting with Singapore's ideology of “Asian values.” Singapore today remains a nation where male homosexuality is illegal but domicile...

.... The author also reads the ritual in the context of the feminine fan culture focused on the women who played the leading male roles that emerged during this period, arguing that the ritual idealized the intertwining of kinship and commodity relations that was gradually loosened during the postwar decades...

..., of individual pleasures disintegrating communal bonds. On a more symbolic level, they banish male authority into the netherworld and deconstruct patriarchal structures, some of which can be associated with the oppression of “first-world” cultural imperialism. Such thematic and allegorical topics are presented...

... sexualities into working-class service labors, such as male/female prostitution, other sexualized service work, and military labor. South Korean military proletarian labor, reconstituted as a supraclass, ethnonational masculinity, functioned simultaneously as an intranational class surrogate labor...

... as a historical representation of male prostitution culture was left out entirely. Through genealogical investigation, the article argues that tongzhi politics and subjectivity as articulated through Crystal Boys is founded upon the normative exclusion of the gendered prostitute subject...

... of the photographer's success in the West. Araki's work has been reviewed not only as sexually excessive but also as desolately asexual. Araki's photographs are open to both readings, while other readings are not encouraged. In fact sexual excess and sexual desolation, as defined from a male point of view and supported...

...Lisa Rofel This essay addresses the anxiety that many urban gay men in China express about “money boys”—a term used in English to refer to male sex workers who have sex with other men for money. The essay argues that money boys are a pressing issue for Chinese gay men because homophobia...

... in Chinese, Hong Kong, and Philippine cinema are explored here, each demonstrating differing inflections in relation to digitization, finance capital, gender performativity, and generic style. Haptic mapping, the rapidly oscillating gender of the “female” martial artist, the transcendent “male” virtuosic...