MCLC: China's made-up masculinity crisis (1)

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China’s made-up masculinity crisis (1)
RE: 男孩危機: “To prepare for the examinations a boy began at age seven or so and in about six years memorized the 4 books and 5 classics, which totaled 431,000 characters...memoriz[ing] a passage of 200 characters a day...The examination system took a man over a dozen hurdles in the space of 20 or 30 years.  Those who emerged from it had lived an examination life so concentrated on the classical literature that they had made themselves a race apart.  Scholars were typically unmuscular, aesthetically refined, and spoke a language intelligible only to their kind, a small elite trained in the principles of bureaucratic government” (Fairbank, The Great Chinese Revolution: 1800-1985: 28, 27).
Nick Kaldis <nkaldis at gmail.com>
by denton.2 at osu.edu on August 3, 2017
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