| Titre | Knowing Male Subjects: Globally Mobile Chinese Professionals and the Aesthetics of the Confucian Sublime | |
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| Auteur | Derek Hird | |
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Revue | China perspectives |
| Numéro | no 2020/3 Re-Envisioning Gender in China: (De)Legitimizing Gazes | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Special feature |
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| Page | 19-27 | |
| Résumé anglais |
This article probes the sources, manifestations, and significances of the ambivalences and contradictions in London-based Chinese middle-class male professionals' sense of their own gendered and cultural identities in the context of China's twenty-first century postsocialist modernity. In doing so, it shows how Chinese middle-class men's sense of themselves connects with wider national debates about China's orientation in the world. To make sense of the desire of some respondents “to become a Chinese gentleman,” the article introduces the notion of the postsocialist Confucian sublime, a vision of a cultural order of increasing appeal to well-educated, middle-class Chinese men. The article argues that the Confucian sublime offers globally mobile professional Chinese men the opportunity to transcend their ambivalence towards Western modernity by providing a sense of wholeness and attainment both at a personal level and in relating to China's place in contemporary globality. Source : Éditeur (via OpenEdition Journals) |
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| Article en ligne | http://journals.openedition.org/chinaperspectives/10323 |
