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• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Toward a Genealogy of Sex
• 1. China Castrated
• 2. Vital Visions
• 3. Deciphering Desire
• 4. Mercurial Matter
• 5. Transsexual Taiwan Conclusion: China Trans Formed List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index.
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For much of Chinese history, the eunuch stood out as an exceptional figure at the margins of gender categories. Amid the disintegration of the Qing Empire, men and women in China began to understand their differences in the language of modern science. In After Eunuchs, Howard Chiang traces the genealogy of sexual knowledge from the demise of eunuchism to the emergence of transsexuality, showing the centrality of new epistemic structures to the formation of Chinese modernity. From anticastration discourses in the late Qing era to sex-reassignment surgeries in Taiwan in the 1950s and queer movements in the 1980s and 1990s, After Eunuchs explores the ways the introduction of Western biomedical sciences transformed normative meanings of gender, sexuality, and the body in China. Chiang investigates how competing definitions of sex circulated in science, medicine, vernacular culture, and the periodical press, bringing to light a rich and vibrant discourse of sex change in the first half of the twentieth century. He focuses on the stories of gender and sexual minorities as well as a large supporting cast of doctors, scientists, philosophers, educators, reformers, journalists, and tabloid writers, as they debated the questions of political sovereignty, national belonging, cultural authenticity, scientific modernity, human difference, and the power and authority of truths about sex. Theoretically sophisticated and far-reaching, After Eunuchs is an innovative contribution to the history and philosophy of science and queer and Sinophone studies.
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• Introduction: 'Imagining Transgender China'
• H.Chiang How China Became a 'Castrated Civilization' and Eunuchs a 'Third Sex'
• H.Chiang Gendered Androgyny: Transcendent Ideals and Profane Realities in Buddhism, Classicism, and Daoism
• D.Burton-Rose 'The Androgynous Ideal in Scholarly-Beauty Romances: A Historical and Cultural View'
• Z.Zhou 'Transgenderism as a Heuristic Device: On the Cross-Historical and Transnational Adaptations of the Legend of the White Snake'
• A.K.H.Wong 'Begin Anywhere: Transgender and Transgenre Desire in Qiu Miaojin's Last Words from Montmartre'
• L.N.Heinrich 'Trans On Screen'
• H.Hok-Sze Leung 'Writing the Body'
• C.Rojas 'Performing Transgender Desire: Male Cross-Dressing Shows in Taiwan'
• C.J.Wu 'Transgenders in Hong Kong: From Shame to Pride'
• P.K.E.Cheung 'De/Colonizing Transgender Studies of China'
• S.Stryker.
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In the vibrant field of queer Asian studies, scholars to date have paid scant attention to transgender topics. Meanwhile, despite its already sophisticated focus on gender non-conformity, Western queer studies exhibits an equally pressing problem: the conspicuous absence of empirical and theoretical investigations of transgenderism in Northeast Asian society and culture. This volume responds to the convergence of these limitations. By bringing together experts with diverse disciplinary backgrounds in the China field, from cultural studies to history to musicology, Transgender China makes a timely intervention whereby emergent Sinologists explore previously untapped terrains across mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan to inaugurate the field of Chinese transgender studies.
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• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Queering History from the Sinophone Pacific Part I: Unsettling Origins: Two Manifestos
• 1. Transtopia: Epistemology of the Commensurate
• 2. Stonewall Aside: Why Queer Theory Needs Sinophone Studies Part II: Uneven Paths: Three Methods
• 3. Titrating Transgender: Archiving Taiwan Through Renyao History
• 4. Inscribing Transgender: Intercorporeal Governance and the Logic of Sinophone Supplementarity
• 5. Creolizing Transgender: Citizenship Contest in the New Millennium Conclusion: An Antidote Approach Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index.
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As a broad category of identity, "transgender" has given life to a vibrant field of academic research since the 1990s. Yet the Western origins of the field have tended to limit its cross-cultural scope. Howard Chiang proposes a new paradigm for doing transgender history in which geopolitics assumes central importance. Defined as the antidote to transphobia, transtopia challenges a minoritarian view of transgender experience and makes room for the variability of transness on a historical continuum. Against the backdrop of the Sinophone Pacific, Chiang argues that the concept of transgender identity must be rethought beyond a purely Western frame. At the same time, he challenges China-centrism in the study of East Asian gender and sexual configurations. Chiang brings Sinophone studies to bear on trans theory to deconstruct the ways in which sexual normativity and Chinese imperialism have been produced through one another. Grounded in an eclectic range of sources-from the archives of sexology to press reports of intersexuality, films about castration, and records of social activism-this book reorients anti-transphobic inquiry at the crossroads of area studies, medical humanities, and queer theory. Timely and provocative, Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific highlights the urgency of interdisciplinary knowledge in debates over the promise and future of human diversity.
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The roles of women in Chinese archaeology, with only a few exceptions, have at worst been overlooked, and at best consigned to conventional Marxist theory that prescribes formulaic frameworks for understanding gender - until now. Renowned archaeologist Katheryn M. Linduff and fellow researcher Yan Sun have brought together a fascinating collection that reexamines gender in ancient Chinese cultures. Acknowledging and negotiating the complications that challenge their efforts, the authors analyze and begin to reconstruct the roles of women in various regions of China from the late Neolithic to the early Empire period. Topics range from mortuary ritual, social status and structures of power, economic influences on cultural practice, textile production, and art in these early Chinese societies. This book is a must for students, professors, and practitioners of archaeology that seek a more complete examination of the archaeological record, for scholars in the fields of Asian Studies, Art History, and Chinese History more generally, as well as for those interested in the roles of women in ancient Chinese society.
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Why did traditional Chinese literati so often identify themselves with women in their writing? What can this tell us about how they viewed themselves as men and how they understood masculinity? How did their attitudes in turn shape the martial heroes and other masculine models they constructed? Martin Huang attempts to answer these questions in this valuable work on manhood in late imperial China. He focuses on the ambivalent and often paradoxical role played by women and the feminine in the intricate negotiating process of male gender identity in late imperial cultural discourses. Two common strategies for constructing and negotiating masculinity were adopted in many of the works examined here. The first, what Huang calls the strategy of analogy, constructs masculinity in close association with the feminine; the second, the strategy of differentiation, defines it in sharp contrast to the feminine. In both cases, women bear the burden as the defining "other." In this study, "feminine" is a rather broad concept denoting a wide range of gender phenomena associated with women, from the politically and socially destabilizing to the exemplary wives and daughters celebrated in Confucian chastity discourse.
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• The secularization of memory
• Survivor's guilt
• Hagiographical memory
• Wounded manhood
• Fragments of anxiety
• Remembering concubines
• Circulating grief
• Remembering sisters
• A wife's remembrances.

本书是一本有关中国农村性别差异研究的书籍. 主要内容包括: 序言, 村庄概况与调查方法, 作为女儿, 作为妻子和母亲, 作为劳动者等.

It is now almost a clich to claim that China and the Chinese people have changed. Yet inside the new clothing that is worn by the Chinese man today, Kam Louie contends, we still see much of the historical Chinese man. With contributions from a team of outstanding scholars, Changing Chinese Masculinities studies a range of Chinese men in diverse and, most importantly, Chinese contexts. It explores the fundamental meaning of manhood in the Chinese setting and the very notion of an indigenous Chinese masculinity. In twelve chapters spanning the late imperial period to the present day, Changing Chinese Masculinities brings a much needed historical dimension to the discussion. Key aspects defining the male identity such as family relationships and attitudes toward sex, class, and career are explored in depth. Familiar notions of Chinese manhood come in all shapes and sizes. Concubinage reemerges as the taking of "second wives" in recent decades. Male homoerotic love and male prostitution are shown to have long historical roots. The self-images of the literati and officials form an interesting contrast with those of the contemporary white-collar men. Masculinity and nationalism complement each other in troubling ways. China has indeed changed and is still changing, but most of these social transformations do not indicate a complete break with past beliefs or practices in gender relations. Changing Chinese Masculinities inaugurates the Hong Kong University Press book series "Transnational Asian Masculinities.".
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• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Part 2 Bi Shumin
• Chapter 3 A Writer's Fate
• Chapter 4 Androgyny
• Chapter 5 When Can Women Start Enjoying Life?
• Chapter 6 Seeking Amazing Women
• Part 7 Fang Fang
• Chapter 8 Obedience versus Disobedience
• Chapter 9 Women's Eyes
• Chapter 10 On Women
• Chapter 11 May My Dream Come True
• Part 12 Han Xiaohui
• Chapter 13 Gender Roles in Commercials
• Chapter 14 I Don't Want to Be a Woman
• Chapter 15 Three Autumnal Phases in a Day
• Chapter 16 Women Don't Cry
• Part 17 Hu Xin
• Chapter 18 Women's Footprints of Pain
• Chapter 19 A Pink Humor
• Chapter 20 My View on Women
• Part 21 Lu Xing'er
• Chapter 22 Women's "Sameness" and "Difference"
• Chapter 23 On "Femininity"
• Chapter 24 One is Not Born a Woman
• Chapter 25 Woman and the Crisis
• Part 26 Shu Ting
• Chapter 27 The Shadow of the Chaste Temple
• Chapter 28 Give Her Some Space
• Chapter 29 A Mirror of One's Own
• Part 30 Zhang Kangkang
• Chapter 31 We Need Two Worlds
• Chapter 32 The "Grand" Realm versus the "True" Realm
• Chapter 33 A Preface for Myself.
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Available in English for the first time, Once Iron Girls: Essays on Gender by Post-Mao Chinese Literary Women brings together twenty-five essays by seven critically acclaimed writers, whose fiction and poetry have become classics in modern Chinese literature. Poetic, metaphoric, and sometimes playful and satiric, the essays discuss the material reality wherein Chinese women live and function. Reflecting on their experiences under Mao and in post-Maoist China, these essays vividly demonstrate that, despite equality of the sexes being the official position and women working equally demanding jobs as men, women are still considered servile to their male counterparts. Taken together, the collection shows Chinese women struggling for identity by discussing the issues that are important in their lives. Unlike Western feminists, they do not want to be seen as different from their male counterparts. Nor do they want to fall into Chinese terminology of being the same as men. Rather, these essays show that women want to be seen first and foremost as human and then as female. By showcasing the politics and poetics of Chinese women's essays to an English audience, Hui Wu's translations uncover the philosophy and purpose behind the literature of a unique generation of Chinese women, whose life experience finds no parallel in China and certainly not in the West.
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Presents the transformations in the lives of Chinese women over the 20th century. Documents the attempts to erase gender differences under Mao, today's changing ideas of femininity, and the crystalization of Chinese feminism at the UN Women's conference in Beijing.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Toward a Genealogy of Sex
• 1. China Castrated
• 2. Vital Visions
• 3. Deciphering Desire
• 4. Mercurial Matter
• 5. Transsexual Taiwan Conclusion: China Trans Formed List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

For much of Chinese history, the eunuch stood out as an exceptional figure at the margins of gender categories. Amid the disintegration of the Qing Empire, men and women in China began to understand their differences in the language of modern science. In After Eunuchs, Howard Chiang traces the genealogy of sexual knowledge from the demise of eunuchism to the emergence of transsexuality, showing the centrality of new epistemic structures to the formation of Chinese modernity. From anticastration discourses in the late Qing era to sex-reassignment surgeries in Taiwan in the 1950s and queer movements in the 1980s and 1990s, After Eunuchs explores the ways the introduction of Western biomedical sciences transformed normative meanings of gender, sexuality, and the body in China. Chiang investigates how competing definitions of sex circulated in science, medicine, vernacular culture, and the periodical press, bringing to light a rich and vibrant discourse of sex change in the first half of the twentieth century. He focuses on the stories of gender and sexual minorities as well as a large supporting cast of doctors, scientists, philosophers, educators, reformers, journalists, and tabloid writers, as they debated the questions of political sovereignty, national belonging, cultural authenticity, scientific modernity, human difference, and the power and authority of truths about sex. Theoretically sophisticated and far-reaching, After Eunuchs is an innovative contribution to the history and philosophy of science and queer and Sinophone studies.
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• 1. Introduction - Queer Sinophone Studies: Intellectual Synergies, Howard Chiang and Alvin K. Wong
• 2. Transpacific - Transfiguring Asian North America and the Sinophonic in Jia Qing Wilson-Yang's Small Beauty, Lily Wong
• 3. Viscerality - Choreographies of Flesh: The Geopolitics of Visceral Violence in Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale (2011), Jih-Fei Cheng
• 4. Postcoloniality - Postcoloniality beyond China-centrism: Queer Sinophone Transnationalism in Hong Kong Cinema, Alvin K. Wong
• 5. Ethnicity - A Queerness of Relation: The Plight of the 'Ethnic Minority' in Chan Koon-Chung's Bare Life, Kyle Shernuk
• 6. Liminality - So Happy Together... Too: Contemporary Philippine Gay Comedy and the Queering of Chinese-Filipino Liminality, M. Antonio Lizada
• 7. Fandom - Transcultural Desires and Lesbian Fandom: Takarazuka Revue in Taiwan, Lucetta Y. L. Kam
• 8. Adaptation - Recognition, Reproach, Repression: The Ren Likui Case in 1947 Tianjin and the Cultural Politics of Homosexual Murder in the Sinophone World, Mian Chen
• 9. Intermediality - "A Weird Concept': Queer Intermediality in Dung Kai-cheung's Fiction, Carlos Rojas
• 10. Activism - Language, Class, and the Hoenggong-Gwailou Divide in Hong Kong LGBTI Activism, Nathan Madson
• 11. Residual - The Polite Residuals of Heteronormativity: Legalizing Transgender Marriage from the European Court of Human Rights to Sinophone Hong Kong, Howard Chiang.
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This volume showcases a vibrant wave of scholarship that explores the intersection of queer theory and Sinophone studies, consolidating an interdisciplinary framework for furthering transnational research into non-conforming genders, sexualities and bodies. Engaging with contemporary debates and controversies, Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies presents a definitive collection of original contributions, which are both theoretically and empirically grounded and cross-disciplinary in nature. Individual chapters offer an in-depth study of new empirical data and case studies, covering keywords such as transpacific, viscerality, fandom, postcoloniality, ethnicity and activism. Imagining new conversations across several fields, including literature, film, communication, ethnic studies, anthropology, history, sociology and politics, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Queer Studies and Asian culture, literature and film, as well as gender and sexuality.
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• "A Volatile Alliance": Queer Sinophone Synergies Across Literature, Film, and Culture / Ari Larissa Heinrich
• (De)Provincializing China: Queer Historicism and Sinophone Postcolonial Critique / Howard Chiang
• Unraveling the Apparatus of Domestication: Zhu Tianxin's "The Ancient Capital" and Queer Engagements with the Nation-State in Post-Martial Law Taiwan / Yin Wang
• From Flowers to Boys: Queer Adaptations in Wu Jiwen's The Fin-de-siècle Boy Love Reader / Tze-lan D. Sang
• Sinophone Erotohistories: The Shaw Brothers' Queering of a Transforming "Chinese Dream" in Ainu Fantasies / Lily Wong
• Queer Sinophone Studies as Anti-Capitalist Critique: Mapping Queer Kinship in the Work of Chen Ran and Wong Bik-Wan / Alvin Ka Hin Wong
• A Queer Journey Home in Solos: Rethinking Kinship in Sinophone Singapore / E.K. Tan
• Theatrics of Cruising: Bathhouses and Movie Houses in Tsai Ming-Liang's Films / Guo-Juin Hong
• Queerly Connecting: The Queer Sinophone Politics of Tsai Ming-Liang's I Don't Want to Sleep Alone / Kenneth Chan
• Desire Against the Grain: Transgender Consciousness and Sinophonicity in the Films of Yasmin Ahmad / Wai Siam Hee and Ari Larissa Heinrich
• Queer Affiliations: Mak Yan Yan's Butterfly as Sinophone Romance / Andrea Bachner
• On the Conjunctive Method / Shu-mei Shih.

The Sinophone framework emphasises the diversity of Chinese-speaking communities and cultures, and seeks to move beyond a binary model of China and the West. Indeed, this strikingly resembles attempts within the queer studies movement to challenge the dimorphisms of sex and gender. Bringing together two areas of study that tend to be marginalised within their home disciplines Queer Sinophone Cultures innovatively advances both Sinophone studies and queer studies. It not only examines film and literature from Mainland China but expands its scope to encompass the underrepresented 'Sinophone' world at large (in this case Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, and beyond). Further, where queer studies in the U.S., Europe, and Australia often ignore non-Western cultural phenomena, this book focuses squarely on Sinophone queerness, providing fresh critical analyses of a range of topics from works by the famous director Tsai Ming-Liang to the history of same-sex soft-core pornography made by the renowned Shaw Brothers Studios. By instigating a dialogue between Sinophone studies and queer studies, this book will have broad appeal to students and scholars of modern and contemporary China studies, particularly to those interested in film, literature, media, and performance. It will also be of great interest to those interested in queer studies more broadly.
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• The secularization of memory
• Survivor's guilt
• Hagiographical memory
• Wounded manhood
• Fragments of anxiety
• Remembering concubines
• Circulating grief
• Remembering sisters
• A wife's remembrances.

"In the first study of its kind about the role played by intimate memory in the mourning literature of late imperial China, Martin W. Huang focuses on the question of how men mourned and wrote about women to whom they were closely related. Drawing upon memories, epitaphs, biographies, litanies, and elegiac poems, Huang explores issues such as how intimacy shaped the ways in which bereaved male authors conceived of womanhood and how such conceptualizations were inevitably also acts of self-reflection about themselves as men. Their memorial writings reveal complicated self-images as husbands, brothers, sons, and educated Confucian males, while their representations of women are much more complex and diverse than the representations we find in more public genres such as Confucian female exemplar biographies."--Back cover.