Chinese American Masculinities: From Fu Manchu to Bruce Lee (Studies in Asian Americans)
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (896 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 081534029X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 196 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"an important texta valuable contribution to the growing scholarship on media and popular culture, masculinity and gender studies, cultural studies, and, of course, Asian and Asian American studies. Also original, and extremely useful for those interested innot just textual analysis but also in pedagogy and social change, is Chan's own thoughtful reflection on his own course Journal of Asian Studies."
Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.. First published in 2001
Critical and necessary book on Chinese/Asian-Am. men!!! A Customer So much of men's studies does not take men of color into account. Then, that which does focuses on African-American men, and sometimes Latino men. Thus, Chan's book is a direly needed intervention. The book focuses upon Chinese-American men, but it is applicable to Asian-Ams of many ethnicities. This book would be a wonderful edition to any collection of Asian-American studies texts or works on men of color. Chan has two projects. First, he discusses the history and racist. William Patrick Maynard said Good book plagued by poor research. Let me preface my review by stating my interest in this book was the author's interpetation of the Fu Manchu character. Overall, this was a good book on an important topic that receives scant attention: prejudice against Asians. The Fu Manchu character, like most fiction from Colonial Britain, has racist elements. However, the author is not sufficiently familiar with the work of the character's creator, Sax Rohmer. Rohmer loved what was then called the Orient. His heroines