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This book is a groundbreaking study of transgender lives and practices in late imperial China. Through close readings of court cases, as well as Ming and Qing fiction and nineteenth-century newspaper accounts, Matthew H. Sommer examines the social, legal, and cultural histories of gender crossing.

Note biographique

Matthew H. Sommer

Table des matières

Acknowledgments
Conventions in the Text
Introduction
1. Transgender Paradigms in Late Imperial China
2. The Paradigm of the Cross-Dressing Predator
3. Clergy as Wolves in Sheep's Clothing
4. Creativity Inspired by Torment?
5. The Fox Spirit Medium
6. The Truth of the Body
7. The Hustler
Epilogue
Character List
Notes
References
Index

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