Chiang After Eunuchs

Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-231-54633-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

Howard Chiang traces the genealogy of sexual knowledge in China from the demise of eunuchism to the emergence of transsexuality, showing its role in the formation of Chinese modernity. Theoretically sophisticated and far-reaching, After Eunuchs is an innovative contribution to the history and philosophy of science and queer and Sinophone studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chiang, Howard

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Sexualpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Toward a Genealogy of Sex
1. China Castrated
2. Vital Visions
3. Deciphering Desire
4. Mercurial Matter
5. Transsexual Taiwan
Conclusion: China Trans Formed
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Chiang Howard:
Howard Chiang (P.h.D., Princeton University) is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Waterloo. His books include Perverse Taiwan (ed., Routledge, 2016), Psychiatry and Chinese History (ed., Routledge, 2014), and Transgender China (ed., Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). He has written articles for Cultural History, the Journal of Women's History, History of Science and others.Howard Chiang is assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Davis. He is the editor of Perverse Taiwan (2016) and Sexuality in China: Histories of Power and Pleasure (2018).