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Book Chapter: Cosmopolitanism with Chinese Characteristics: Transnational Male Images in Chinese TV Dramas
Title | Cosmopolitanism with Chinese Characteristics: Transnational Male Images in Chinese TV Dramas |
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Issue Date | 2018 |
Publisher | Hong Kong University Press. |
Citation | Cosmopolitanism with Chinese Characteristics: Transnational Male Images in Chinese TV Dramas. In Hird, D & Song, G (Eds.), The Cosmopolitan Dream: Transnational Chinese Masculinities in a Global Age, p. 27-39. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2018 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This chapter analyzes a group of male images in Chinese television dramas of recent years and examines how national identity is constructed through negotiation of the meaning of gender. These images, such as white-collar elite in transnational corporations, returnees from overseas and Chinese businessmen in foreign countries, show a conspicuous desire to represent Chinese men in a cosmopolitan fashion and to link masculinity with modernity. Another venue for the performance of cosmopolitan masculinity is some foreign locale. Dramas depicting the lives of overseas Chinese, including students, tourists, new immigrants and merchants, have become increasingly popular in recent years. The paper examines how these transnational male images exhibit hybridity and negotiation between global and local discourses of masculinity and how this cosmopolitan masculinity squares with the state’s agenda of building a modern and cosmopolitan image of the country and, in particular, its educated younger elite. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/246508 |
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Series/Report no. | Transnational Asian Masculinities |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Song, G | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-09-18T02:29:43Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2017-09-18T02:29:43Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Cosmopolitanism with Chinese Characteristics: Transnational Male Images in Chinese TV Dramas. In Hird, D & Song, G (Eds.), The Cosmopolitan Dream: Transnational Chinese Masculinities in a Global Age, p. 27-39. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2018 | - |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9789888455850 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/246508 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This chapter analyzes a group of male images in Chinese television dramas of recent years and examines how national identity is constructed through negotiation of the meaning of gender. These images, such as white-collar elite in transnational corporations, returnees from overseas and Chinese businessmen in foreign countries, show a conspicuous desire to represent Chinese men in a cosmopolitan fashion and to link masculinity with modernity. Another venue for the performance of cosmopolitan masculinity is some foreign locale. Dramas depicting the lives of overseas Chinese, including students, tourists, new immigrants and merchants, have become increasingly popular in recent years. The paper examines how these transnational male images exhibit hybridity and negotiation between global and local discourses of masculinity and how this cosmopolitan masculinity squares with the state’s agenda of building a modern and cosmopolitan image of the country and, in particular, its educated younger elite. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Hong Kong University Press. | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | The Cosmopolitan Dream: Transnational Chinese Masculinities in a Global Age | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | 世界性之夢:全球化時代的跨國中國男子氣概 | - |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Transnational Asian Masculinities | - |
dc.title | Cosmopolitanism with Chinese Characteristics: Transnational Male Images in Chinese TV Dramas | - |
dc.type | Book_Chapter | - |
dc.identifier.email | Song, G: gsong@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Song, G=rp01648 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 276055 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 27 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 39 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Hong Kong | - |