Decolonizing Transgender History: Eunuchs, Renyao, and Adju, with Dr. Howard Chiang (UC Santa Barbara)

Zoom and in person, PL-217, and on Zoom https://csusb.zoom.us/j/388207496

Howard Chiang, Professor of East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies, holds the Lai Ho & Wu Cho-liu Endowed Chair in Taiwan Studies. He has written two award-winning monographs on China, forming a duology of queer Asian Pacific history through the lens of knowledge production. After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China (2018) analyzes the history of sex change in China from the demise of castration in the late Qing era to the emergence of transsexuality in Cold War Taiwan. Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific (2021) proposes a new paradigm for doing transgender history in which geopolitics assumes central importance. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History (2019), a landmark 3-volume reference compendium. He is currently completing Trans Without Borders (under contract).

For questions, please contact Jeremy Murray (History), jmurray@csusb.edu

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