Transgender China [electronic resource] /
Chiang, H.editor.
This volume brings together experts with diverse disciplinary backgrounds in the China field, from cultural studies to history to musicology, to make a timely intervention—from the historical demise of enuchism to male cross-dressing shows in contemporary Taiwan—to inaugurate a subfield in Chinese transgender studies.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Part I Introduction; 1 Imagining Transgender China; Part II Trans Figurations of History; 2 How China Became a "Castrated Civilization" and Eunuchs a "Third Sex"; 3 Gendered Androgyny: Transcendent Ideals and Profane Realities in Buddhism, Classicism, and Daoism; 4 The Androgynous Ideal in Scholar-Beauty Romances: A Historical and Cultural View; 5 Transgenderism as a Heuristic Device: On the Cross-historical and Transnational Adaptations of the Legend of the White Snake; Part III Trans Locations of Culture
6 Begin Anywhere: Transgender and Transgenre Desire in Qiu Miaojin's Last Words from Montmartre7 Trans on Screen; 8 Writing the Body; 9 Performing Transgender Desire: Male Cross-Dressing Shows in Taiwan; 10 Transgenders in Hong Kong: From Shame to Pride; Part IV Afterword; 11 De/Colonizing Transgender Studies of China; List of Contributors; Index
Includes index.
This volume brings together experts with diverse disciplinary backgrounds in the China field, from cultural studies to history to musicology, to make a timely intervention—from the historical demise of enuchism to male cross-dressing shows in contemporary Taiwan—to inaugurate a subfield in Chinese transgender studies.
Sociology.
Ethnology.
China—History.
Asia—History.
Literature.
Literature   .
Gender Studies.
Cultural Anthropology.
History of China.
Asian History.
Literature, general.
Postcolonial/World Literature.