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After Eunuchs - Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China (Paperback)
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After Eunuchs - Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China (Paperback)
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Loot Price R599
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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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