Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific /

"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 geop...

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Main Author: Chiang, Howard, 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Queering history from the Sinophone Pacific / Pt. I. Unsettling origins. ch. I. Transtopia: epistemology of the commensurate ; ch. II. Stonewall aside: why queer theory needs Sinophone studies
  • Pt. II. Uneven paths. ch. III. Titrating transgender: archiving Taiwan through Renyao history ; ch. IV. Inscribing transgender: intercorporeal governance and the logic of Sinophone supplementarity ; ch. V. Creolizing transgender: citizenship contest in the new millennium
  • Conclusion: An antidote approach.