Final Outline for CHI 320

In planning for the final paper for CHI 320: Gender Politics in Chinese Literature, I'm working with this annotated bibliography.

Topic: Show a comparison of the masculinity of foreigners with native Chinese men, in both literature and personal accounts.

Interviews: Plan to interview more subjects regarding the subject of foreigners in sexual relations with native Chinese.

In-Class Sources: Shanghai Baby, Characters Big and Small, Lady Sophia’s Diary

Potential outside sources:

Extramarital Love in Shanghai

James Farrer and Sun Zhongxin

The China Journal, No. 50 (Jul., 2003), pp. 1-36 

   This may end up not being useful, but hopefully, it will help me understand some of the attitudes people hold towards marriage.
 

Farrer, James (2008) 'From "Passports" to "Joint Ventures":

Intermarriage between Chinese Nationals and Western Expatriates Residing in

Shanghai', Asian Studies Review, 32:1, 7 – 29

   This will give me a look into relationships that are more substantial than one-night stands, and the way they are perceived by Chinese.
 

A Foreign Adventurer’s Paradise? Interracial Sexuality and Alien Sexual

Capital in Reform Era Shanghai

James Farrer

Sexualities 2010; 13; 69

   This will give a picture of the masculinity conceived as being attached to a foreigner.

Gregory M. Pugfelder (2012). The Nation-State, the Age/Gender System, and the

Reconstitution of Erotic Desire in Nineteenth-Century Japan. The Journal of Asian Studies, 71,

pp 963-974 doi:10.1017/S0021911812001222

  This will hopefully help flesh out the complexities of relations with foreigners in China.

Kam Louie (2012). Popular Culture and Masculinity Ideals in East Asia, with Special Reference

to China. The Journal of Asian Studies, 71, pp 929-943 doi:10.1017/S0021911812001234

   This will be a comparison point, and help me understand what the conceptions of masculinity in China actually are.