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  title info:
    title: After eunuchs
    sub title: science, medicine, and the transformation of sex in modern China
  name:
    name part: Chiang, Howard
    name part: 1983-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 391 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Introduction : towards a genealogy of sex -- China castrated -- Vital visions -- Deciphering desire -- Mercurial matter -- Transsexual Taiwan -- Conclusion : China trans formed.
  note: Howard Chiang.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-375) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-cc---
  subject:
    topic: Gender identity
    geographic: China
  subject:
    topic: Sex role
    geographic: China
  subject:
    topic: Gender identity
  subject:
    topic: Sex role
  subject:
    geographic: China
  classification: HQ1075.5.C6 C45 2018
  classification: 305.30951
  identifier: 9780231185783
  identifier: 0231185782
  identifier: 9780231546331
  identifier: 2017055402
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180315
    record change date: 20180817120328.0
    record identifier: in00004036800
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng