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Future Studies

1 post in total
  • The Future of Intimacy: Technology, Ethics, and Human Connection in the Digital Age June 4, 2025

Gender Platform Observatory

3 posts in total
  • How Search Compresses Transgender History: A 2026 Observatory of Retrieval Context and Automated Summaries on the Chinese Public Web September 8, 2026
  • How History Survives Web Change: A Digital Preservation and Discoverability Observatory for Mainland China’s Transgender Sources, 2009–2026 September 1, 2026
  • Tags, Titles, and Danmu: How Bilibili Organizes the Visibility of Nanniang and Cross-Dressing Content August 10, 2026

Gender Terminology Research

8 posts in total
  • From Character Category to Real-Person Label: Five Media Gates in the History of Otokonoko August 13, 2026
  • Three Historical Clocks Inside the Claim That Nanniang Culture Originated in Japanese ACG August 12, 2026
  • A Research Map of Nanniang Culture: Six Entry Points Through Language, Practice, Platforms, and Community August 11, 2026
  • From Weiniang to Nanniang: What the Chinese Internet Record Actually Shows August 9, 2026
  • Turing Faction, von Neumann Faction, and Tech Femboy: A Context Guide to a Chinese Programmer Meme August 8, 2026
  • From Nanliang to Xiao Nanliang: How a Homophonic Place Name Became a Platform Label August 7, 2026
  • The Multiple Sources of Nanniang Culture: Characters, Cross-Dressing Practice, and Chinese Platform Labels August 6, 2026
  • Nanniang, Weiniang, Nü Zhuang Dalao, Otokonoko, and Femboy: Why They Do Not Translate One-to-One August 5, 2026

Novel

2 posts in total
  • Metamorphosis of Identity: Gender Transformation Fictions as Cultural Mirrors From Antiquity to Digital Communities February 5, 2025
  • Mirror of the Self: Origins, Branches, and Reflections on ChineseGender-Bender Fiction January 4, 2025

Sinophone Transgender History

5 posts in total
  • From a ‘Filial Son’ Narrative to Liu Ting’s Public Reappearance: Moral-Model Credentials Across Transition, 2005–2016 September 5, 2026
  • The 2017 Chinese Transgender Population Survey: Methods, Evidence Legacy, and Citation Boundaries September 4, 2026
  • A Reading Map for Transgender History in Mainland China, 1980–2026: Seven Paths through Bodies, Documents, Institutions, Language, and Digital Archives September 2, 2026
  • From Surgical Certification to a Document Cascade: The Administrative History of Legal Gender Recognition in Mainland China, 1980–2025 August 28, 2026
  • From Surgical Records to Community Hotlines: Six Documentary Regimes in Mainland China’s Transgender Public History, 1983–2022 August 17, 2026

Transformation Fiction Research

2 posts in total
  • Transformation, Body Swap, Reincarnation, Possession, and Redesign: A Five-Layer Guide to Transformation Fiction August 15, 2026
  • Cold Water, Hot Water, Social Memory: Reversible Transformation in Ranma ½ August 14, 2026

Transformation Fiction Studies

1 post in total
  • From Qidian Collections to Tieba Indexes: Reconstructing the Platform History of Chinese Transformation Fiction August 16, 2026

Transgender History Research

8 posts in total
  • From Yixingzheng to Gender Incongruence: The Multiple Clocks of Transgender Diagnostic Classification in Mainland China September 9, 2026
  • How Moving Images Preserve Transgender Public History: An Annotated Guide to Mainland China’s Queer and Trans Screen Archive, 2008–2025 September 7, 2026
  • How to Verify “Firsts” in Mainland China’s Transgender Medical History: A Coordinate Guide to Surgery, Region, Public Identity, and Institutional Records September 6, 2026
  • From a Cancelled Judgeship to a Show Bearing Her Name: Jin Xing and Role Migration in Chinese Television, 2011–2015 September 3, 2026
  • From Early Surgical Records to a Gender Clinic: An Annotated Guide to Peking University Third Hospital’s Transgender-Medicine Public Archive, 1983–2026 August 31, 2026
  • How to Read Old Labels and Names in Chinese Transgender History: A Four-Column Guide to Self-Identification, Media, Medicine, and Archives August 30, 2026
  • From Unlawful Dismissal to Equal Employment: The Two Legal Tracks of the Guiyang Mr C Case, 2015–2018 August 29, 2026
  • From “Bianxing Ren” to “Transgender”: Four Naming Regimes in Mainland China, 1980–2025 August 27, 2026
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Gender Terminology Research 8 Transgender History Research 8 Sinophone Transgender History 5 Gender Platform Observatory 3 Novel 2 Transformation Fiction Research 2 Future Studies 1 Transformation Fiction Studies 1
Gender Culture 17 Transgender History 16 Internet History 6 Technology and Society 4 Transformation Fiction 3 Introduction 2 Announcement 1 Community and Institutional History 1 Community and Platform History 1 Community Culture 1 ALL 18
Transgender 17 Mainland China 8 Nanniang 8 Cross-Dressing 7 Transgender History in China 7 Medical History 6 Media History 5 Otokonoko 5 Bilibili 4 Digital Archives 4 ALL 130
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Posts
  • How Search Compresses Transgender History: A 2026 Observatory of Retrieval Context and Automated Summaries on the Chinese Public Web
    September 8, 2026
  • From a ‘Filial Son’ Narrative to Liu Ting’s Public Reappearance: Moral-Model Credentials Across Transition, 2005–2016
    September 5, 2026
  • From a Cancelled Judgeship to a Show Bearing Her Name: Jin Xing and Role Migration in Chinese Television, 2011–2015
    September 3, 2026
  • How History Survives Web Change: A Digital Preservation and Discoverability Observatory for Mainland China’s Transgender Sources, 2009–2026
    September 1, 2026
  • From Unlawful Dismissal to Equal Employment: The Two Legal Tracks of the Guiyang Mr C Case, 2015–2018
    August 29, 2026
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