This volume brings together experts with diverse disciplinary backgrounds in the China field, from cultural studies to history to musicology, to make a timely intervention-from the historical demise of enuchism to male cross-dressing shows in contemporary Taiwan-to inaugurate a subfield in Chinese transgender studies.

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DANIEL BURTON-ROSE PhD student in East Asian Studies at Princeton University, USA PUI KEI ELEANOR CHEUNG Researcher and activist for LGBT issues in Hong Kong HOWARD CHIANG Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese History at the University of Warwick, UK LARISSA N. HEINRICH Associate Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego, USA HELEN HOK-SZE LEUNG Associate Professor of Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University, Canada CARLOS ROJAS Associate Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies at Duke University, USA SUSAN STRYKER Associate Professor in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies and the Director of the Institute for LGBT Studies at the University of Arizona, USA ALVIN KA HIN WONG Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA CHAO-JUNG WU Assistant Professor in the Chinese Music Department at the National Taiwan University of Arts ZUYAN ZHOU Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Languages at Hofstra University, USA

Inhalt
Introduction: 'Imagining Transgender China'; H.Chiang How China Became a 'Castrated Civilization' and Eunuchs a 'Third Sex'; H.Chiang Gendered Androgyny: Transcendent Ideals and Profane Realities in Buddhism, Classicism, and Daoism; D.Burton-Rose 'The Androgynous Ideal in Scholarly-Beauty Romances: A Historical and Cultural View'; Z.Zhou 'Transgenderism as a Heuristic Device: On the Cross-Historical and Transnational Adaptations of the Legend of the White Snake'; A.K.H.Wong 'Begin Anywhere: Transgender and Transgenre Desire in Qiu Miaojin's Last Words from Montmartre'; L.N.Heinrich 'Trans On Screen'; H.Hok-Sze Leung 'Writing the Body'; C.Rojas 'Performing Transgender Desire: Male Cross-Dressing Shows in Taiwan'; C.J.Wu 'Transgenders in Hong Kong: From Shame to Pride'; P.K.E.Cheung 'De/Colonizing Transgender Studies of China'; S.Stryker