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Trans‐gender things: Objects and the materiality of trans‐femininity in Ming‐Qing China (2024)
Journal Article
Huang, A. (2024). Trans‐gender things: Objects and the materiality of trans‐femininity in Ming‐Qing China. Gender and History, 36(1), 52-71. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12766

This article demonstrates that objects, more specifically the trans usage of objects that disrupted and rearticulated the normative alignment of objects, sexed bodies and gender embodiments, served a formative role in helping male‐assigned individual... Read More about Trans‐gender things: Objects and the materiality of trans‐femininity in Ming‐Qing China.

Before and Beyond Sexuality: Trans-femininity in Ming-Qing China (2024)
Thesis
Huang, A. A. Before and Beyond Sexuality: Trans-femininity in Ming-Qing China. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Going beyond contemporary identitarian understandings of ‘transgender’ and the dominant Western ‘mid-century’ transsexual historiography, this thesis explores more diverse, fluid, and non-medicalised forms of male-to-female gender-crossing in Ming-Qi... Read More about Before and Beyond Sexuality: Trans-femininity in Ming-Qing China.