He includes masculinity and nationalism in his arguments in a way that assumes his readers understand the connection between these two concepts. For example, in chapter 4 on tabloid articles, he writes, "homosexual relations between men...became evidence of the weakness of Chinese masculinity, which caused a growing crisis of the nation." From this statement, it can be inferred that a weakness in Chinese masculinity would lead to a crisis in the nation. What Kang fails to explain in this statement and consistently throughout his work is why and how masculinity affects nationalism and vice versa, something readers must understand to understand and be convinced of Kang's argument. In Masculinity and Nationalism: Gender and Sexuality in the Making of Nations by Joane Nagel, he attempts to understand why men are so eager to defend their masculinity and their country by exploring the connection between masculinity and nationalism. After exploring the development of masculinity and nationalism in the United States, he notes that masculinity and modern nationalism go well together because they both emerged in the same time and place. An important sentence he wrote