Using Beijing, Shanghai, Guiyang, Jiangsu, Shenyang, and networked archives as observation points, this research encyclopedia explains why transgender public history forms dense documentary clusters in a small number of cities and introduces an evidence-geography matrix and a city-interface ledger.
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.
Using ShanghaiPRIDE press releases, film-program pages, Trans Pride materials, beneficiary lists, and annual recaps from 2009–2020, this guide traces transgender visibility from inclusion in the LGBT category to gender-focused programming, a dedicated Trans Pride event, and explicit multi-city resource links. It introduces an event-archive layer table and a transgender-visibility routing map.
A source-based comparison of how names, sex markers, and identity-card numbers move through admission records, active student status, graduation, national electronic credential registration, CHSI, and later verification, with an education-record state matrix and credential-divergence 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 transgender and gender-diverse mental-health research in mainland China moved from clinical and urban convenience samples toward national surveys, school samples, minority-stress measures, family and school mechanisms, service utilization, and culturally adapted measurement, this article proposes a mental-health evidence matrix and a mechanism-chain ledger.
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 fixed-sample observatory of twelve public transgender-history source groups in mainland China, comparing government HTML, institutional landing pages, PDFs, community archives, and legal mirrors, and proposing a machine-readable evidence ladder and AI discovery debt model.
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.
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.