Excess and masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions

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Abstract

Innovative analysis of the relationship of gender to East Asian economic development. In Excess and Masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions, Kwai-Cheung Lo explores the excesses associated with the phenomenal economic growth in East Asia, including surplus capital, environmental waste, and the unbalanced ratio of men to women in the region, connecting the production of capitalist "excess" to the production of new forms of transnational Asian masculinity. Lo draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis and Marxist ideas as well as gender theory in his examination of East Asian cultural products such as religious and parenting books, transgender literary fantasies, travel writing, gangster movies, female action heroes, and online games. Through this analysis, Lo argues that the excess of Asia's "masculine" modernization throws into relief the internal inconsistencies of capitalism itself, posing new challenges to the order of global capitalism and suggesting new possible configurations of global modernity.

Original languageEnglish
PublisherState University of New York Press
Number of pages243
ISBN (Electronic)9781441669575
ISBN (Print)9781438432090, 9781438432083
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2010

Publication series

NameSUNY series in global modernity

Scopus Subject Areas

  • Social Sciences(all)

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