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.

Traces the evolution of evidence on transgender school experience in mainland China from early campus-bullying surveys through transgender-specific adolescent studies, school samples, school-climate models, and long-term educational outcomes, and proposes a school-evidence ladder and education-path ledger.

A research encyclopedia entry tracing how CCMD-3, ICD-10, ICD-11, national medical-technology rules, and hospital services overlap in mainland Chinese transgender care, with a diagnostic-migration ledger and four-clock model for distinguishing international classification, professional use, clinical interfaces, and regulation.

A fixed-sample observatory of the 2009 medical rule, the 2017 national survey, the Mr C employment case, PUH3, Jin Xing’s television history, and A Day of Trans, examining how search results, archival metadata, and automated summaries preserve or compress historical context.

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.

An institutional archive guide to four decades of Peking University Third Hospital webpages, departmental histories, clinic guides, policy documents, clinical studies, and community-preserved copies, tracing how transgender medicine moved from a surgical case record to multidisciplinary care and research cohorts.

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 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.