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Making National Heroes

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Making National Heroes is an ethnography on the making of national heroes in the commemoration of the Second World War in contemporary China. Foregrounding the lived experience of men and women who...
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Making National Heroes is an ethnography on the making of national heroes in the commemoration of the Second World War in contemporary China. Foregrounding the lived experience of men and women who participate in commemorative activities, it theorises how masculinity and nationalism entangle in recollecting war memories. Taking the line of feminist inquiry, this anthropological study develops an approach to capture the centrality of making exemplars in the realisation of hegemonic masculinities. It adds a gender perspective to studies on the exemplarist moral theory and theorises exemplary men’s cross-culture significance in defining masculinities. Researchers in the fields of critical masculinity studies, anthropology, feminist methodology, China studies, and war memories may be interested in this book.
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Price: £47.00
Pages: 192
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Imprint: Hong Kong University Press
Series: Transnational Asian Masculinities
Publication Date: 02 April 2024
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9789888842759
Format: Hardcover
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
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“I highly recommend this book about the grassroots redress movement that seeks to make national heroes of the largely forgotten KMT soldiers from pre-1949 times. By way of exploring this intriguing topic, Jacqueline Zhenru Lin gives a fascinating account of how nationalism and gender interact to produce exemplary masculinities in present-day China.”

—Kam Louie, University of Hong Kong

List of Figures 

Preface 

Acknowledgements 

Introduction: Searching for the National Hero in the Shadow of Chinese History 

1. Searching for the Authentic Chinese Martyrs in Myanmar: Necromantic Nationalism and Contesting (Fore)Fatherhood in War Commemoration 

2. We Will Take You to Taiwan to Look for Your Father: The Masculine Fascination with Reunion across the Taiwan Strait 

3. Unbearable Glory: Sexual Discipline and Dialogic Mechanism in the Exemplarist Production of Hegemonic Masculinities 

4. Rescuing Embattled Masculinity and Idealising True Love: Male Bonding between Veterans beyond Political Ideologies in Contemporary China 

5. Protecting Endangered Masculinity and Guarding the Innocent Warrior: Women Supporting the Exemplarist Production of Masculinities 

6. Masculinity in the Third Sector: Male Homosociality in #MeToo within China’s NGO Sector

7. Conclusion: The Exemplarist Production of Chinese Masculinities 

Glossary 

References 

Index