عنوان

After eunuchs :

(Number (ISBN

0231546335

(Number (ISBN

9780231546331

Erroneous ISBN

0231185782

Erroneous ISBN

9780231185783

Title Proper

After eunuchs :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

science, medicine, and the transformation of sex in modern China /

First Statement of Responsibility

Howard Chiang.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Columbia University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2018]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xvii, 391 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: towards a genealogy of sex -- China castrated -- Vital visions -- Deciphering desire -- Mercurial matter -- Transsexual Taiwan -- Conclusion: China trans formed -- List of abbreviations -- Bibliography.

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Text of Note

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 genealogy of sexual knowledge from the demise of eunuchism to the emergence of transsexuality, showing the rise of new epistemic structures to be central 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 themselves, 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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JSTOR

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OverDrive, Inc.

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22573/ctv4hqhqv

Stock Number

540C30B7-D776-401A-BCFF-82026D068B07

Title

After eunuchs.

International Standard Book Number

9780231185783

Gender identity-- China.

Sex role-- China.

Castration-- history.

Gender Identity.

Sex Reassignment Procedures-- history.

Sexual and Gender Minorities-- history.

Social Perception.

Transsexualism-- history.

Gender identity.

HISTORY-- Asia-- China.

Sex role.

China.

China.

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HIS-- 008000

MED-- 039000

SCI-- 075000

SOC-- 065000

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Edition

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Book number

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Class number

Chiang, Howard,1983-

Date of Transaction

20200822103442.0

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[Book]

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