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  • 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

    $47.99 CAD

  • Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific

    by Howard Chiang ...
    Winner, 2022 Bonnie and Vern L. Bullough Book Award, Society for the Scientific Study of SexualityHonorable Mention, 2022 Alan Bray Memorial Book Award in LGBTQ Literary and Cultural Studies, Modern Language Association GLQ Caucus and American Studies Association Queer/Trans CaucusShortlisted, 2022 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ StudiesAs a broad category of identity, “transgender” has given ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • 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

    $35.99 CAD

  • Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific

    by Howard Chiang ...
    Winner, 2022 Bonnie and Vern L. Bullough Book Award, Society for the Scientific Study of SexualityHonorable Mention, 2022 Alan Bray Memorial Book Award in LGBTQ Literary and Cultural Studies, Modern Language Association GLQ Caucus and American Studies Association Queer/Trans CaucusShortlisted, 2022 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ StudiesAs a broad category of identity, “transgender” has given ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • 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

    $97.55 CAD

  • 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

    $86.99 CAD

  • 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

    $36.99 CAD

  • Psychiatry and Chinese History

    by Howard Chiang ...
    Series series Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
    This collection examines psychiatric medicine in China across the early modern and modern periods. Essays focus on the diagnosis, treatment and cultural implications of madness and mental illness and explore the complex trajectory of the medicalization of the mind in shifting political contexts of Chinese history. ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • 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

    $36.99 CAD

  • 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

    $94.99 CAD

  • 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

    $142.99 CAD

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  • Chinese Kinship

    Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives

    Edited by Susanne Brandtstädter, Gonçalo D Santos ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    The essays in this volume present contemporary anthropological perspectives on Chinese kinship, its historical complexity and its modern metamorphoses. The collection draws particular attention to the reverberations of larger socio-cultural and politico-economic processes in the formation of sociality, intimate relations, family histories, reproductive strategies and gender relations – and vice ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD