After eunuchs : science, medicine, and the transformation of sex in modern China

After eunuchs : science, medicine, and the transformation of sex in modern China / Howard Chiang.

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 terms of modern scientific knowledge. In After Eunuchs, Howard Chiang traces the...

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Main Author: Chiang, Howard, 1983- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Gender identity > China.
Sex role > China.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : towards a genealogy of sex
  • China castrated
  • Vital visions
  • Deciphering desire
  • Mercurial matter
  • Transsexual Taiwan
  • Conclusion : China trans formed.

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