Chapter One Introduction
1 To Begin: A Gender Debate in Sydney
2 A Sketch of Chinese Australian Literature
3 A Review of Research on Chinese Australian Literature
4 Research Subjects, Questions and Methodology
Chapter Two Masculinity Theory And Research
1 Masculinities in General
2 Diasporic Masculinities
3 Chinese Masculinities and Diasporic Chinese Masculinities
4 Representations of Chinese Masculinity in Indigenous and Diasporic Chinese Literatures
Chapter Three Male Authors' Self-Representation: Frustrated Intellectuals
1 Confused Scholar
2 Beleaguered Hero
3 Immoral Intellectual
4 Marginal Man
5 Stranded in No-Man's Land: The Eastern Slope Chronicle
Conclusion
Chapter Four Male Authors' Self-Representation: Successful Men
1 From Rags to Riches: Australian Dream
2 From Village Boy to Ballet Star:Mao's Last Dancer
3 A Patriotic Fighter with both Brain and Brawn:Why Go Abroad; A Report from the Other Side of the Ocean
4 Shanghai Men with both Brawn and Brass:Living in Sydney
Conclusion
Chapter Five Female Construction Of Chinese Masculinity: Unreliable Men
1 The Chinese Man/Western Man Dichotomy
2 Unreliable Lovers
3 Shi Guoying's Feminised Chinese Men
4 Frustrated Chinese Men
Conclusion
Chapter Six Brian Castro's Chinamen
1 Introduction: Brian Castro and Scholarship on Brian Castro
2 Challenging Racial Stereotypes and Male Ideals in Birds of Passage
3 Redefining Wen Masculinity in After China
Conclusion
Chapter Seven Conclusion
1 Rethinking the Debate about Chinese Men and Western Men
2 Summary and Implications
3 Representations of Gay Chinese Masculinity
4 Beyond Chinese Australian Literature: Rethinking the Scholarship on Chinese Masculinity and Diasporic Chinese Masculinities
Acknowledgements
Author's Note
Appendix A List of Chinese Language Novels and Novellas
References
