CHANGE and Challenges: Launching the China Academic Network on Gender at Université libre de Bruxell
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WAGIC
Women and Gender in China
In May 2018, the China Academic Network on Gender (CHANGE) was inaugurated with a conference that it held at the Université libre de...
Yunyun Zhou 周芸芸
- Jul 2, 2018
- 4 min
Writing Gender into History: Prostitution and Modern China’s State-building
Book reviewed: Elizabeth J. Remick, Regulating Prostitution in China: Gender and Local Statebuilding 1900–1937. Stanford, California:...
Geng Song
- Jun 25, 2018
- 5 min
Rescuing the World with Chinese Masculinity
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...
Joseph Reid
- Jun 18, 2018
- 6 min
Male Desire in the Republic: Fragile Masculinities in the Works of Yu Dafu and Mu Shiying
Masculinities in the Republican period (1912-49) were particularly fragile and complex due to the sweeping societal changes that occurred...
Derek Hird
- Jun 11, 2018
- 5 min
Money, Muscle, and Meditation: Transnational Chinese Masculinities in Film
In their response to socio-economic transformation, filmic masculinities are capable of evincing the dreams and anxieties of entire...
Kam Louie
- Jun 4, 2018
- 5 min
The Chinese Merchant as Male Model
The class hierarchy of scholar/gentry-peasant-worker-merchant 士农工商 (shinonggongshang) was generally accepted in imperial China after...
Linda Pittwood
- Jun 3, 2018
- 2 min
Issue 9: Masculinity, Consumption and Nation
In our first issue dealing specifically with masculinities, our contributors were asked to consider how conceptions of masculinity...
Xiaomi
- Jun 2, 2018
- 6 min
Students Protesting Against Sexual Harassment Banners on Campus Face a Deluge of Attacks
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...
Johanna Hood
- Jun 2, 2018
- 7 min
The ‘First Lady Soft Power Politics’ of Peng Liyuan
Two earthquakes devastated areas in Sichuan, Wenchuan in 2008 and Lushan in 2013, but elicited very different public responses to the Red...
Dino Ge Zhang
- May 30, 2018
- 5 min
Diaosi, Nüzhubo and Enclosure of Desire
The first story is that of a lonely male diaosi (literally “dick hair”, a neologism to describe mediocre losers) who vents his...
Françoise Robin
- May 28, 2018
- 6 min
Tibetan Films and Their Invisible Women
It is well known that, in men’s cinema, visibility and celebrity often come at a price for women actresses: “spectacular visibility”,...
Pan Wang
- May 21, 2018
- 4 min
Celebrity Chinese-Foreign Marriages and Divorces Through the Prism of Gender, Race and Class
While China’s first entertainment star Shen Danping’s marriage to Kraeuter, a German man, in the mid-1980s is today celebrated as an...
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