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  • Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific

    by Howard Chiang ...
    As a broad category of identity, “transgender” has given life to a vibrant field of academic research since the 1990s. Yet the Western origins of the field have tended to limit its cross-cultural scope. 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 ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • After Eunuchs

    Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China

    by Howard Chiang ...
    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 the language of modern science. In After Eunuchs, Howard Chiang traces the genealogy of sexual knowledge from the demise of eunuchism to the emergence of transsexuality, showing ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific

    by Howard Chiang ...
    As a broad category of identity, “transgender” has given life to a vibrant field of academic research since the 1990s. Yet the Western origins of the field have tended to limit its cross-cultural scope. 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 ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • After Eunuchs

    Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China

    by Howard Chiang ...
    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 the language of modern science. In After Eunuchs, Howard Chiang traces the genealogy of sexual knowledge from the demise of eunuchism to the emergence of transsexuality, showing ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Sinophone Studies Across Disciplines

    A Reader

    Edited by Howard Chiang, Shu-mei Shih ...
    Series series Global Chinese Culture
    Sinophone studies—the study of Sinitic-language cultures and communities around the world—has become increasingly interdisciplinary over the past decade. Today, it spans not only literary studies and cinema studies but also history, anthropology, musicology, linguistics, art history, and dance. More and more, it is in conversation with fields such as postcolonial studies, settler-colonial studies, ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Perverse Taiwan

    Edited by Howard Chiang, Yin Wang ...
    Series series Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series
    Host of the first gay pride in the Sinophone world, Taiwan is well-known for its mushrooming of liberal attitudes towards non-normative genders and sexualities after the lifting of Martial Law in 1987. Perverse Taiwan is the first collection of its kind to contextualize that development from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing on its genealogical roots, sociological manifestations, and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Sexuality in China

    Histories of Power and Pleasure

    Edited by Howard Chiang ...
    What was sex like in China, from imperial times through the post-Mao era? The answer depends, of course, on who was having sex, where they were located in time and place, and what kind of familial, social, and political structures they participated in. This collection offers a variety of perspectives by addressing diverse topics such as polygamy, pornography, free love, eugenics, sexology, crimes ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies

    Edited by Howard Chiang, Alvin K. Wong ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    This volume showcases a vibrant wave of scholarship that explores the intersection of queer theory and Sinophone studies, consolidating an interdisciplinary framework for furthering transnational research into non-conforming genders, sexualities and bodies.Engaging with contemporary debates and controversies, Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies presents a definitive collection of original ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Historical epistemology and the making of modern Chinese medicine

    Edited by Howard Chiang ...
    This collection expands the history of Chinese medicine by bridging the philosophical concerns of epistemology and the history and cultural politics of transregional medical formations. Topics range from the spread of gingko’s popularity from East Asia to the West to the appeal of acupuncture for complementing in-vitro fertilisation regimens, from the modernisation of Chinese anatomy and forensic ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Queer Sinophone Cultures

    Edited by Howard Chiang, Ari Larissa Heinrich ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    The Sinophone framework emphasises the diversity of Chinese-speaking communities and cultures, and seeks to move beyond a binary model of China and the West. Indeed, this strikingly resembles attempts within the queer studies movement to challenge the dimorphisms of sex and gender.Bringing together two areas of study that tend to be marginalised within their home disciplines Queer Sinophone ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Piano Tuner

    by Chiang-Sheng Kuo ...
    Narrated by Fernando Chien ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 57 min

    A widower grieving for his young wife. A piano tuner concealing a lifetime of secrets. An out-of-tune Steinway piano. A journey of self-discovery across time and continents, from a dark apartment in Taipei’s red-light district to snow-clad New York. At the heart of the story is the nameless narrator, the piano tuner. In his forties, he is balding and ugly, a loser by any standard. But he was once ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • From the Soil

    The Foundations of Chinese Society

    by Xiaotong Fei ...
    This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about the distinctive characteristics of Chinese society. Written in Chinese from a Chinese point of view for a Chinese audience, From the Soil describes the contrasting organizational principles of Chinese and Western societies, thereby conveying the essential ... Read more

    $18.99 USD