Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific

by Howard Chiang

Book Overview

As a broad category of identity, "transgender" has given life to a vibrant field of academic research since the 1990s. Yet the Western origins of the field have tended to limit its cross-cultural scope. Howard Chiang proposes a new paradigm for doing transgender history in which geopolitics assumes central importance. Defined as the antidote to transphobia, transtopia challenges a minoritarian view of transgender experience and makes room for the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231190972
• ISBN13: 9780231190978
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"