The Fragile Scholar: Power and Masculinity in Chinese Culture by Geng Song

The Fragile Scholar: Power and Masculinity in Chinese Culture

Geng Song

256 pages first pub 2004 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The Fragile Scholar examines the pre-modern construction of Chinese masculinity from the popular image of the fragile scholar (caizi) in late imperial Chinese fiction and drama. The book is an original contribution to the study of the construction...

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