GenderLibs is a digital platform that connects Chinese and global gender diversity knowledge through translation, contextualization, and systematic organization. We aim to bridge linguistic and cultural barriers by providing a resource library and wiki that makes diverse gender expressions accessible across languages.
From Confidential Surgery to Woman’s Dream: How Zhang Kesha’s Public Narrative Took Shape, 1983–2003
A historical case study tracing Zhang Kesha’s 1983 confidential operation, local oral visibility in Changsha, years of private life-writing, and the 2003 publication and press tour around Woman’s Dream. It proposes a public-history relay and a narrative-provenance ledger for studying how a clinical event became public transgender history.
A historical argument connecting the 2018 National Transgender Hotline, Shanghai's first Trans Pride, Peking University Third Hospital specialty pathways, and the legal gender recognition review through a public-interface and entry-point-density framework.
A fixed-sample observatory of the 2009 medical rule, the 2017 national survey, the Mr C employment case, PUH3, Jin Xing’s television history, and A Day of Trans, examining how search results, archival metadata, and automated summaries preserve or compress historical context.
A historical case study tracing Liu Ting from national attention for caring for her ill mother in 2005, through recognition as a National Moral Model for filial devotion in 2007, public transition in 2014–2015, a 2015 pageant, and the university’s continuing filial-piety fund in 2016. It proposes public-credential carryover and archival inertia as two tools for reading continuity across changes in name and gender framing.
A media history of Jin Xing from the reported cancellation of a television judgeship linked to her transgender history in 2011 through talk-show hosting, repeated reality-TV mentorship, and the 2015 launch of The Jin Xing Show, proposing a four-stage role-legitimacy ladder for transgender public visibility.
A fixed-sample observatory of government rules, hospital pages, community surveys, litigation records, community archives, web archives, and search indexes, proposing a source-survival stack and discovery-redundancy model for mainland China’s transgender history.
A case study of the Guiyang Mr C transgender employment dispute, tracing how labor arbitration, wrongful-dismissal litigation, personality-rights litigation, and appeal translated gender identity, gender expression, and equal employment into a durable judicial record.
A historical study of clinical, media, administrative, and community vocabularies for transgender and gender-diverse lives in mainland China, using a vocabulary-stratigraphy model to explain how terms such as yixingzheng, bianxing ren, gender reassignment, transgender, and kuar coexist across institutions.
A case study of Ranma ½ that models transformation through three interacting layers: bodily state, character continuity, and the social memory carried across each switch.