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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.
Host of the first gay pride in the Sinophone world, Taiwan is
well-known for its mushrooming of liberal attitudes towards
non-normative genders and sexualities after the lifting of Martial
Law in 1987. Perverse Taiwan is the first collection of its kind to
contextualize that development from an interdisciplinary
perspective, focusing on its genealogical roots, sociological
manifestations, and cultural representations. This book enriches
and reorients our understanding of postcolonial queer East Asia.
Challenging a heteronormative understanding of Taiwan's past and
present, it provides fresh critical analyses of a range of topics
from queer criminality and literature in the 1950s and 1960s to the
growing popularity of cross-dressing performance and tongzhi (gay
and lesbian) cinema on the cusp of a new millennium. Together, the
contributions provide a detailed account of the rise and
transformations of queer cultures in post-World War II Taiwan. By
instigating new dialogues across disciplinary divides, this book
will have broad appeal to students and scholars of Asian studies
and queer studies, especially those interested in history,
anthropology, literature, film, media, and performance.
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.
Host of the first gay pride in the Sinophone world, Taiwan is
well-known for its mushrooming of liberal attitudes towards
non-normative genders and sexualities after the lifting of Martial
Law in 1987. Perverse Taiwan is the first collection of its kind to
contextualize that development from an interdisciplinary
perspective, focusing on its genealogical roots, sociological
manifestations, and cultural representations. This book enriches
and reorients our understanding of postcolonial queer East Asia.
Challenging a heteronormative understanding of Taiwan's past and
present, it provides fresh critical analyses of a range of topics
from queer criminality and literature in the 1950s and 1960s to the
growing popularity of cross-dressing performance and tongzhi (gay
and lesbian) cinema on the cusp of a new millennium. Together, the
contributions provide a detailed account of the rise and
transformations of queer cultures in post-World War II Taiwan. By
instigating new dialogues across disciplinary divides, this book
will have broad appeal to students and scholars of Asian studies
and queer studies, especially those interested in history,
anthropology, literature, film, media, and performance.
This collection examines psychiatric medicine in China across the
early modern and modern periods. The essays focus on the diagnosis,
treatment, and cultural implications of madness and mental illness
and explore the complex trajectory of the medicalization of the
mind in shifting political contexts of Chinese history.
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.
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.
What was sex like in China, from imperial times through the
post-Mao era? The answer depends, of course, on who was having sex,
where they were located in time and place, and what kind of
familial, social, and political structures they participated in.
This collection offers a variety of perspectives by addressing
diverse topics such as polygamy, pornography, free love, eugenics,
sexology, crimes of passion, homosexuality, intersexuality,
transsexuality, masculine anxiety, sex work, and HIV/AIDS.
Following a loose chronological sequence, the chapters examine
revealing historical moments in which human desire and power
dynamics came into play. Collectively, the contributors undertake a
necessary historiographic intervention by reconsidering Western
categorizations and exploring Chinese understandings of sexuality
and erotic orientation.
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.
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.
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.
What was sex like in China, from imperial times through the
post-Mao era? The answer depends, of course, on who was having sex,
where they were located in time and place, and what kind of
familial, social, and political structures they participated in.
This collection offers a variety of perspectives by addressing
diverse topics such as polygamy, pornography, free love, eugenics,
sexology, crimes of passion, homosexuality, intersexuality,
transsexuality, masculine anxiety, sex work, and HIV/AIDS.
Following a loose chronological sequence, the chapters examine
revealing historical moments in which human desire and power
dynamics came into play. Collectively, the contributors undertake a
necessary historiographic intervention by reconsidering Western
categorizations and exploring Chinese understandings of sexuality
and erotic orientation.
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.
This collection expands the history of Chinese medicine by bridging
the philosophical concerns of epistemology and the history and
cultural politics of transregional medical formations. Topics range
from the spread of gingko's popularity from East Asia to the West
to the appeal of acupuncture for complementing in-vitro
fertilisation regimens, from the modernisation of Chinese anatomy
and forensic science to the evolving perceptions of the clinical
efficacy of Chinese medicine. The individual essays cohere around
the powerful theoretical-methodological approach, 'historical
epistemology', which challenges the seemingly constant and timeless
status of such rudimentary but pivotal dimensions of scientific
process as knowledge, reason, argument, objectivity, evidence,
fact, and truth. In studying the globalising role of medical
objects, the contested premise of medical authority and legitimacy,
and the syncretic transformations of metaphysical and ontological
knowledge, contributors illuminate how the breadth of the
historical study of Chinese medicine and its practices of
knowledge-making in the modern period must be at once philosophical
and transnational in scope. -- .
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