This article advances new perspectives on disability culture in contemporary China. Using gender â specifically masculinity â as an âintersection,â it addresses key questions that both help to explain, but also further trouble, the way in which the âimpairedâ male body is both represented and lived in China today. Although recent research across the disciplines is revealing more and more about pre-modern and contemporary understandings of, and responses to, disability in China, little is known about the way in which gendered identities intersect and interact with disabled identities. From âgentlemenâ and âheroesâ to âreal menâ and âdisabled men,â this article examines dominant historical and contemporary images of masculinity and disability, and illustrates how they have come to frame the way in which disabled men have been viewed and view themselves. And, through the close reading of the memoirs of one young man, Zhang Yuncheng, it reveals the possibilities and limitations through which gendered behaviours are formed and enacted on an individual level when set against Chinese discourses of disability, normalcy, and gender.â©
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âGeng Song, The Fragile Scholar: Power and Masculinity in Chinese Culture (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2004), 10.
âTiantian Zheng, âMasculinity in Crisis: Effeminate Men, Loss of Manhood, and the Nation-state in Postsocialist China,â Etnográfica 19.2 (2015): 347-65, see page 353. Projected anxieties over Chinaâs colonial past and national vulnerability vis-à -vis âstrongerâ foreign forces, past and present, appear to play a significant role here.
âSarah Dauncey, âA Face in the Crowd: Imagining Individual and Collective Disabled Identities in Contemporary China,â Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 25.2 (2013): 130-65.
âMatthew Kohrman, Bodies of Difference: Experiences of Disability and Institutional Advocacy in the Making of Modern China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005).
âAnn McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (New York: Routledge, 1995), 5.
âKam Louie, Theorising Chinese Masculinity: Society and Gender in China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
âGeng Song and Derek Hird, Men and Masculinities in Contemporary China (Leiden: Brill, 2013), 21.
âDerek Hird, âMoral Masculinities: Ethical Self-fashionings of Professional Chinese Men in London,â Nan Nű: Men, Women and Gender in China 18.1 (2016): 115-47, and see page 136.
âElanah Uretsky, Occupational Hazards: Sex, Business, and HIV in Post-Mao China (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016), 54-85.
âFor more detail, see Mann, Gender and Sexuality, 100; Frank Dikötter, Imperfect Conceptions: Medical Knowledge, Birth Defects and Eugenics in China (London: Hurst, 1998); Susan Brownell, Training the Body for China:Sports in the Moral Order of the Peopleâs Republic (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995).
âEvans, âDefining Difference,â 367. See also Neil J. Diamant, âMaking Love âLegibleâ in China: Politics and Society during the Enforcement of Civil Marriage Registration, 1950-66,â Politics & Society 29.3 (2001): 447-80. For more on suzhi, see Andrew Kipnis, âSuzhi: A Keyword Approach,â China Quarterly 186 (2006): 295-313.
âSee, for example, Zhang Yuncheng, Jiaru wo neng xingzou santian, 63-69.
âZhang Yuncheng, Jiaru wo neng xingzou santian, 7-13. Exclusion for disabled children is still common in Chinaâs education system; see Sarah Dauncey, âSpecial and Inclusive Education,â in W. John Morgan, Qing Gu, and Fengliang Li, eds., A Handbook of Education in China (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2017), 290-313.
âZhang Yuncheng, Jiaru wo neng xingzou santian, 56. Employment levels continue to be low for all disabled people, but particularly women; see Masayuki Kobayashi and Mori Soya, eds., Poverty Reduction for the Disabled in China: Livelihood Analysis from the Second China National Sample Survey on Disability (Chiba: Institute of Developing EconomiesâJETRO, 2009).
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This article advances new perspectives on disability culture in contemporary China. Using gender â specifically masculinity â as an âintersection,â it addresses key questions that both help to explain, but also further trouble, the way in which the âimpairedâ male body is both represented and lived in China today. Although recent research across the disciplines is revealing more and more about pre-modern and contemporary understandings of, and responses to, disability in China, little is known about the way in which gendered identities intersect and interact with disabled identities. From âgentlemenâ and âheroesâ to âreal menâ and âdisabled men,â this article examines dominant historical and contemporary images of masculinity and disability, and illustrates how they have come to frame the way in which disabled men have been viewed and view themselves. And, through the close reading of the memoirs of one young man, Zhang Yuncheng, it reveals the possibilities and limitations through which gendered behaviours are formed and enacted on an individual level when set against Chinese discourses of disability, normalcy, and gender.â©
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