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 source-critical guide that decomposes “first” claims in mainland China’s transgender medical history into procedure scope, geography, institution, publicity, administrative effect, event time, and source role, comparing the 1983 Zhang Kesha surgery, regional surgery histories of the 1990s, marriage registration in 2003, Geng Zi’s public identity in 2005–2006, and national technical rules from 2009 to 2022.
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.
A media history of Jin Xing from the reported cancellation of a television judgeship linked to her transgender history in 2011 through talk-show hosting, repeated reality-TV mentorship, and the 2015 launch of The Jin Xing Show, proposing a four-stage role-legitimacy ladder for transgender public visibility.
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 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.