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, “same-sex relationships… have become evidence of the weakness of Chinese masculinity, which has caused a growing crisis in the nation.” From this statement it can be deduced 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 influences nationalism and vice versa, something readers must understand to understand and be convinced of Kang's thesis. In Masculinity and Nationalism: Gender and Sexuality in the Making of Nations, Joane Nagel 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 modern masculinity and nationalism go well together because they both emerged in the same time and place. An important sentence that he writes