East Asian Men

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.

• Foreword. Experimental Masculinities, Narrative Empathy and Cosmopolitan Genders Across the Globe; Ken Plummer.- Introduction; Xiaodong Lin, Chris Haywood and Máirtín Mac an Ghaill.- Part I. Being and Becoming: Subjectivities, identifications and intimacy.- Chapter 1. Single Male Rural-Urban Migrant Workers and the Negotiation of Masculinity in China; Xiaodong Lin.- Chapter 2. Acting Straight? Non-heterosexual Salarymen Working with Heteronormativity in the Japanese Workplace; Romit Dasgupta.- Chapter 3. Negotiating Family/Filial Responsibilities: Reflexivity, Tradition, and Taiwanese (Younger) Professional Men; Bo-Wei Chen and Máirtín Mac an Ghaill.- Chapter 4. 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 and Miu Yin Wong.- Part II. Representations: Producing and Consuming Sexual Masculinities; Chapter 5. Sinoglossia Incarnate: The Entanglements of Castration acrossthe Pacific; Howard Chiang.- Chapter 6. ‘Same-Sex Wedding’, Queer Performance and Spatial Tactics in Beijing; Hongwei Bao.- Chapter 7. ‘Cinderella’ in Reverse: Eroticizing Bodily Labour of Sympathetic Men in K-pop Dance Practice Video; Chuyun Oh.- Chapter 8. ‘Branding Men’: Exploring Men, Masculinity and Thai alcohol brands in East Asian Global Markets; Jhitsayarat Siripai and Chris Haywood.- Part III. Emerging Masculinities: Configuring Men’s Futures.- Chapter 9. Herbivore Masculinities in Post-Millennial Japan; Justin Charlebois.- Chapter 10. Emerging Heterosexualities in an Era of TV Dating: Exploring young Chinese men’s experiences of love and intimacy; Chao Yang.- Chapter 11. Weapons of the Weak Soldiers: Military Masculinity and Embodied Resistance in Taiwanese Conscription; Ying-Chao Kao.- Chapter 12. Beyond the Celebration of Losers: The construction of diaosi masculinity in contemporary Chinese youth culture; Siyang Cao.- Chapter 13. Pathways toward Progressive Gender Consciousness for Young Men in Taiwan; Herng-Dar Bih.

“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)