Chiang, Howard
Transgender China
Part I. Introduction
1. Imagining Transgender China
Howard Chiang
Part II. Trans Figurations of History
2. How China Became a “Castrated Civilization” and Eunuchs a “Third Sex”
Howard Chiang
3. Gendered Androgyny: Transcendent Ideals and Profane Realities in Buddhism, Classicism, and Daoism
Daniel Burton-Rose
4. The Androgynous Ideal in Scholar-Beauty Romances: A Historical and Cultural View
Zuyan Zhou
5. Transgenderism as a Heuristic Device: On the Cross-historical and Transnational Adaptations of the
Alvin Ka Hin Wong
Part III. Trans Locations of Culture
6. Begin Anywhere: Transgender and Transgenre Desire in Qiu Miaojin’s
Larissa N. Heinrich
7. Trans on Screen
Helen Hok-Sze Leung
8. Writing the Body
Carlos Rojas
9. Performing Transgender Desire: Male Cross-Dressing Shows in Taiwan
Chao-Jung Wu
10. Transgenders in Hong Kong: From Shame to Pride
Pui Kei Eleanor Cheung
Part IV. Afterword
11. De/Colonizing Transgender Studies of China
Susan Stryker
Keywords: Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Cultural Anthropology, History of China, Asian History, Literature, general, Postcolonial/World Literature
- Editor
- Chiang, Howard
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2012
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 313 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137082503
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-34320-1