中国传统戏曲里的小生往往让西方观众笑呵呵，瘦弱，白皙，红脸蛋，没胡子，亮色衣，吊高音，对他们来说sissy到不行。其实你的man和我的man不同。关于中国古典文学男性形象研究的好书。
"I argue that the conceptional binaries of male/female and
heterosexual/homosexual, which are central to the Western gender
discourses and the signifying system as a whole, were largely absent in
pre-modern China......Gender and sexual differences are mainly
represented by the correlative yin/yang dichotomy in classical
China......Yin and yang are not fixed qualities but fluid relations in
the political structure of imperial China. In this sense, gender
discourse was more power-based than sex-based in pre-modern China,
because gender and political powers were intimately intertwined."
——Song Geng, The Fragile Scholar: Power and Masculinity in Chinese
Culture (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2004), p.1, 12, 13.
（2015年5月2日）
