{"product_id":"after-eunuchs-howard-chiang-9780231185790","title":"After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor 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 \u003ci\u003eAfter Eunuchs\u003c\/i\u003e, Howard Chiang traces the genealogy of sexual knowledge from the demise of eunuchism to the emergence of transsexuality, showing the centrality of new epistemic structures to the formation of Chinese modernity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom anticastration discourses in the late Qing era to sex-reassignment surgeries in Taiwan in the 1950s and queer movements in the 1980s and 1990s, \u003ci\u003eAfter Eunuchs\u003c\/i\u003e explores the ways the introduction of Western biomedical sciences transformed normative meanings of gender, sexuality, and the body in China. Chiang investigates how competing definitions of sex circulated in science, medicine, vernacular culture, and the periodical press, bringing to light a rich and vibrant discourse of sex change in the first half of the twentieth century. He focuses on the stories of gender and sexual minorities as well as a large supporting cast of doctors, scientists, philosophers, educators, reformers, journalists, and tabloid writers, as they debated the questions of political sovereignty, national belonging, cultural authenticity, scientific modernity, human difference, and the power and authority of truths about sex. Theoretically sophisticated and far-reaching, \u003ci\u003eAfter Eunuchs\u003c\/i\u003e is an innovative contribution to the history and philosophy of science and queer and Sinophone studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Howard Chiang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231185790\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231185790\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/10\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.10d","brand":"Howard Chiang","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43941202657535,"sku":"9780231185790","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_fa4cdae0-ecb7-45e9-b536-0fb268275350.jpg?v=1681451523","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/after-eunuchs-howard-chiang-9780231185790","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}