The overall volume provides a strong sense that changing economic, political and cultural conditions in East Asia have been distilled through aspects of mens experiences that are personal, emotional, erotic and changeable, and ambivalent to some of the analytic frames commonly used in scholarship to consider gender. the volume lays important groundwork for further examining East Asian mens experiences in closer relation to the local and indigenous traditions of self-making that characterise East Asian history. (Philip Martin, NORMA, August, 2017)
