ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how one might begin to talk non-stereotypically, in differentiated and heteroglossic voices about one family of emergent identities and affinities: new Asian masculinities. In the interwar and post-war periods, Asian men of author grandfather's and father's generations were often considered something 'less than men' when they ventured out of their immediate neighbourhoods the experience described in Kam Louie's analysis of the negation of Chinese men's masculinity when they immigrate to Australia. The author began this chapter by arguing for a cultural, as well as economic, analysis of the configurations of the Asian diaspora. In her discussion of the 'flexible citizenship' of Asian-Americans, comments that: Here she have suggested that there are other kinds of bridges across gendered identities and speaking positions that are emerging among cosmopolitan Asian males, bridges that reframe and reconstruct archetypal Asian and Anglo-European masculinities.
