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.
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.
An annotated archive guide using Queer China, ‘Comrade’ China, Brothers, Sunken Plum, A Day of Trans, and The Last Year of Darkness to distinguish historical documentary, community documentary, fiction, trans-authored life documentary, and queer-scene documentary while tracing premieres, festivals, platforms, distribution, and retrospective screenings.
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 historical-source guide that separates public self-identification and names, media labels, medical and administrative terms, and present-day editorial description, while tracking each naming event across time.
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 research encyclopedia entry traces how Japanese 男の娘 (otokonoko) moved through publishing, cosplay, physical venues, creator self-description, and platform tags from a media-character category into several forms of real-person labeling.