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Changing Parameters of Intellectual Masculinity Changing Parameters of Intellectual Masculinity
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Neologisms and New Love Neologisms and New Love
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Modern Men’s Conundrum and Modern Love Ethics Modern Men’s Conundrum and Modern Love Ethics
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Male Mentorship and “Love Rescue” Romance Male Mentorship and “Love Rescue” Romance
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Conclusion: Neoromantic Masculinity as Differentiation Conclusion: Neoromantic Masculinity as Differentiation
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Notes Notes
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4 New Men of Feelings: “Freedom of Love,” Modern Ethics, and Neo-romantic Masculinity of the May Fourth Generation
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Published:April 2022
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Abstract
In the middle 1910s, the May Fourth generation became the new cultural leaders of Chinese enlightenment. Intellectual efforts to reconstruct masculinities largely shifted emphasis from shen (the body-person) to xin (the heart-mind). This chapter examines changes in three interconnected spheres, the institutional, the affective, and the epistemological, that shook the core of older ethics of Confucian masculinities and reshaped the interiority of the younger generation in forming a neo-romantic masculinity based on modern love. The May Fourth generation attempted to construct a new sexual morality on the modern principals of “freedom of love,” gender equality, and monogamy. The advocacy and practice of these principles and the establishment of the affective bonds of qing also became core components of romantic masculinity to distinguish themselves from the Confucian literati of the past.
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