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Transgender China
- Title
- Transgender China / edited by Howard Chiang.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Description
- viii, 304 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Other contributors
- Chiang, Howard, 1983-
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- Imagining transgender China / Howard Chiang
- How China became a "castrated civilization" and eunuchs a "third sex" / Howard Chiang
- Gendered androgyny : transcendent ideals and profane realities in Buddhism, classicism, and Daoism / Daniel Burton-Rose
- The androgynous ideal in scholar-beauty romances : a historical and cultural view / Zuyan Zhou
- Transgenderism as a heuristic device : on the cross-historical and transnational adaptations of the Legend of the white snake / Alvin Ka Hin Wong
- Begin anywhere : transgender and transgenre desire in Qiu Miaojin's Last words from Montmartre / Larissa N. Heinrich
- Trans on screen / Helen Hok-Sze Leung
- Writing the body / Carlos Rojas
- Performing trnasgender desire : male cross-dressing shows in Taiwan / Chao-Jung Wu
- Transgenders in Hong Kong : from shame to pride / Pui Kei Eleanor Cheung
- De/colonizing transgender studies of China / Susan Stryker.
- Kinsey subjects
- Transsexualism.
- ISBN
- 9780230340626 (alk. paper) 0230340628 (alk. paper)