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Making National Heroes (HB)
Author:
Jacqueline Zhenru Lin
Publisher:
Hong Kong University Press
Synopsis:
"Making National Heroes" is an ethnography of the commemoration of the Second World War in China, exploring how masculinity and nationalism entangle in recollecting war memories. It offers a feminist perspective and a gendered approach to exemplarist moral theory, theorizing exemplary men's cross-cultural significance in defining masculinities. This book is relevant to researchers in critical masculinity studies, anthropology, feminist methodology, China studies, and memory studies.