Fei Huang

This volume is the first book-length study of stay-at-home fathers, an emerging and non-conforming gender role in mainland China, offering a nuanced account of masculinities and fathering practices associated with this role while situating them within global discourses of gender, care, and family life. Drawing on analyses of TV dramas, social media materials, and in-depth interviews, it examines the multiple, overlapping, and at times contradictory discourses surrounding this role. By moving beyond the initial motivations for becoming stay-at-home fathers, the book shows how these men occupy shifting positions across different domains of their lives, including self-understanding, childcare, and intimate relationships. Readers benefit from an analysis that reveals masculinities as fluid and negotiated performances shaped by cultural expectations, life events, and class-based opportunities. These insights highlight how gendered power is reconfigured in partial and non-linear ways within and beyond the family. Stay-at-Home Fatherhood and Masculinities in China serves as an essential resource for researchers and students in Asian studies, gender studies, sociology, and family studies. It is particularly valuable for those interested in the contemporary transformation of parenting practices and gender roles in urban China.

Ny udgave med nyt forord af Zakiya Ajmi. Antologien BRUN udkom første gang i 2018. Vi opfordrede personer med vidt forskellig baggrund til at komme med deres bidrag. »Skriv lige, hvad du vil,« lød opfordringen. Forfatterne er Sarah Engell, Tobias Rahim, Kristina Aamand, Zakiya Ajmi, Rebecca Bach-Lauritsen, Nassrin el Halawani, Niviaq Korneliussen, Tara Skadegaard Thorsen, Mary Tesfay, Jens Philip Yazdani og Dennis Glintborg. Fordelt gennem bogen er flere sort/hvid tegneseriesider af Fei Huang.

In Reshaping the Frontier Landscape: Dongchuan in Eighteenth-century Southwest China, Fei HUANG examines the process of reshaping the landscape of Dongchuan, a remote frontier city in Southwest China in the eighteenth century. Rich copper deposits transformed Dongchuan into one of the key outposts of the Qing dynasty, a nexus of encounters between various groups competing for power and space. The frontier landscape bears silent witness to the changes in its people’s daily lives and in their memories and imaginations. The literati, officials, itinerant merchants, commoners and the indigenous people who lived there shaped and reshaped the local landscape by their physical efforts and cultural representations. This book demonstrates how multiple landscape experiences developed among various people in dependencies, conflicts and negotiations in the imperial frontier.