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Howard Chiang proposes a new paradigm for doing transgender history in which geopolitics assumes central importance. Defined as the antidote to transphobia, transtopia challenges a minoritarian view of transgender experience and makes room for the variability of transness on a historical continuum.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Queering History from the Sinophone Pacific
Part I: Unsettling Origins: Two Manifestos1. Transtopia: Epistemology of the Commensurate
2. Stonewall Aside: Why Queer Theory Needs Sinophone Studies
Part II: Uneven Paths: Three Methods3. Titrating Transgender: Archiving Taiwan Through
Renyao History
4. Inscribing Transgender: Intercorporeal Governance and the Logic of Sinophone Supplementarity
5. Creolizing Transgender: Citizenship Contest in the New Millennium
Conclusion: An Antidote Approach
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Howard Chiang is associate professor of history at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of
After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China (Columbia, 2018) and editor in chief of
The Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History (2019).
Summary
Howard Chiang proposes a new paradigm for doing transgender history in which geopolitics assumes central importance. Defined as the antidote to transphobia, transtopia challenges a minoritarian view of transgender experience and makes room for the variability of transness on a historical continuum.
