In May 2018, the China Academic Network on Gender (CHANGE) was inaugurated with a conference that it held at the Université libre de...

Book reviewed: Elizabeth J. Remick, Regulating Prostitution in China: Gender and Local Statebuilding 1900–1937. Stanford, California:...

In the summer of 2017, Wolf Warrior 2, a patriotic action blockbuster directed by martial artist Wu Jing, who also co-wrote the film and...

Masculinities in the Republican period (1912-49) were particularly fragile and complex due to the sweeping societal changes that occurred...

In their response to socio-economic transformation, filmic masculinities are capable of evincing the dreams and anxieties of entire...

The class hierarchy of scholar/gentry-peasant-worker-merchant 士农工商 (shinonggongshang) was generally accepted in imperial China after...

In our first issue dealing specifically with masculinities, our contributors were asked to consider how conceptions of masculinity...

On May 7th, my friends and I felt outraged when we saw a banner on the school square that read “Your children can have 26 or 27 Gan...

Two earthquakes devastated areas in Sichuan, Wenchuan in 2008 and Lushan in 2013, but elicited very different public responses to the Red...

The first story is that of a lonely male diaosi (literally “dick hair”, a neologism to describe mediocre losers) who vents his...

It is well known that, in men’s cinema, visibility and celebrity often come at a price for women actresses: “spectacular visibility”,...

While China’s first entertainment star Shen Danping’s marriage to Kraeuter, a German man, in the mid-1980s is today celebrated as an...