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.
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.
A historical essay separates the origin question into three clocks—terms, media characters, and embodied practice—to trace how Japanese otokonoko publishing, cosplay, and Chinese platform language converged.
A platform observatory report on public Bilibili pages from 2024–2026, examining how nanniang, cross-dressing, Nanliang, Xiao Nanliang, CD, TS, and MTF move across titles, tags, series, bios, danmu, and search entry points.
A case study of Nanliang and Xiao Nanliang across Bilibili, AcFun, TapTap, Chinese web fiction, and technical communities, tracing how homophony, nicknaming, series branding, creator self-description, and platform discovery produced a new layer of Chinese community language.