Tracing how transgender employment in mainland China moved across livelihood narratives, large LGBTI surveys, transgender-specific surveys, employment litigation, sex-work research, recruitment evidence boundaries, and employer policy, this report proposes an employment-evidence stack and a disclosure-action ledger.
Reconstructing Chen Lili’s 2004 Miss Universe Sichuan eligibility dispute alongside the distinct cases of Yang Yuan, Liu Xiaojing, and Cheng Lili, this essay uses an eligibility stack and a name-event provenance ledger to explain how legal female status, pageant rules, stage visibility, and later digital archival collision diverged.
Tracing how MSM community organizations, CDC partnerships, peer education, testing, and research infrastructure in mainland China created early public-health entry points for transgender women while compressing gender difference inside a behavioral category, this essay explains the later emergence of transgender-specific data and services through a public-health visibility matrix and a classification-inheritance chain.
A bilingual annotated archive guide to transgender surveys, legal-policy reviews, medical and document-change guides, workplace research, and national health studies published in or about mainland China from 2014 to 2021, with a grey-literature provenance matrix and document-life ledger.
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 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 research encyclopedia entry treating the 2017 Chinese Transgender Population General Survey as knowledge infrastructure, tracing its online recruitment, the path from 5,677 submissions to 2,060 valid questionnaires, later academic reanalysis, and comparison with the 2021 survey, with an evidence-infrastructure chain and number-provenance ledger.
This research map organizes public transgender history in mainland China into seven intersecting paths—medicine, identity documents, work and courts, community infrastructure, public language, documentary regimes, and digital preservation—and introduces a historical conversion chain plus a source-switch method for reproducible reading.
A research encyclopedia entry tracing legal gender recognition in mainland China through household registration, resident identity cards, gender appraisal, local public-security procedures, and downstream institutional records, with an original document-cascade model.