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TRANSTOPIA IN THE SINOPHONE PACIFIC Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific Howard Chiang Columbia University Press New York Columbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York Chichester, West Sussex cup . columbia . edu Copyright © 2021 Columbia University Press All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-i n- Publication Data Names: Chiang, Howard, 1983– author. Title: Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific / Howard Chiang. Description: New York : Columbia University Press, [2021] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020032449 (print) | LCCN 2020032450 (ebook) | ISBN 9780231190961 (hardback) | ISBN 9780231190978 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9780231549172 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Transsexuals—C hina— History. | Transgender people— China— History. | Gender nonconformity—C hina— History. | Gender identity— China— History. | Queer theory. Classification: LCC HQ77.95.C6 C45 2021 (print) | LCC HQ77.95.C6 (ebook) | DDC 305.30951—d c23 LC record available at https:// lccn. loc . gov / 2020032449 LC ebook record available at https://l ccn. loc . gov / 2020032450 Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-f ree paper. Printed in the United States of America Cover image: Follow Me, 2017, Raintree Chan. Used with permission of Raintree Chan. Cover design: Chang Jae Lee For my parents and Hao- Te And in memory of Yeh Yung- chih Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction Queering History from the Sinophone Pacific 1 PART I Unsettling Origins: Two Manifestos i Transtopia: Epistemology of the Commensurate 19 ii Stonewall Aside: Why Queer Theory Needs Sinophone Studies 64 PART II Uneven Paths: Three Methods iii Titrating Transgender: Archiving Taiwan Through Renyao History 97 iv Inscribing Transgender: Intercorporeal Governance and the Logic of Sinophone Supplementarity 137 [ vii ] v Creolizing Transgender: Citizenship Contest in the New Millennium 170 conclusion An Antidote Approach 208 Abbreviations 213 Notes 215 Bibliography 295 Index 347 [ viii ] CONTENTS
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