Howard Chiang
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 508079 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Howard Chiang |
| NOMBRES | Howard |
| APELLIDO | Chiang |
| FIRMA | CHIANG H |
| AFILIACIONES | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3658-3565 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 49 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 104 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Taiwan Extra and the Future of Sinophone Studies
Wayne Soon. Global Medicine in China
The big picture of sexual science
This article identifies a few paradigmatic ways whereby the big picture of sexual science has been made possible, especially through a diversification in the uneven but interconnected geography of scientific practice. It focuses on the ways in which the life and work of individual researchers, institutional settings and journal circulations have anchored the development of narratives about the history of sexual science. By delineating the shiftin…
Hide and Seek
In the 1950s, the idea of sex change increasingly assumed the mainstay of public interest. As psychiatrists and psychologists developed new understandings of gender, the role of surgeons is often overlooked in the early history of sex reassignment. This article explores the work of one such doctor, Elmer Belt, a urologist based in Los Angeles. Between 1953 and 1962, Belt operated on twenty-nine male-to-female patients in the face of ethical and m…
Roundtable
In this roundtable, scholars respond to the following guiding questions of the special issue: Racial capitalism in US scholarship is necessarily and rightfully narrated through the Transatlantic slave trade. While this is a globally relevant history for understanding the past and the present of transnational racial orders, what other histories and present modes of capitalist accumulation are relevant to telling a global history of racial capitali…
Sexuality and the Rise of China
Sexuality and the Rise of China draws on interviews with ninety young gay men with an average age of roughly twenty-four, proportionally sampled and distributed across Taipei, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. In the introduction, Travis S. K. Kong states his objective unambiguously: by investigating this “post-1990s” cohort, the study aims to capture the texture of gay life and subjectivity in a generational way. To the extent that this denotes an explic…
Trans without Borders
Rumo a um Sinofuturismo Queer
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The Secrets of a Loyalist Soul
In the 1930s, Peking Union Medical College oversaw the most advanced neuropsychiatric unit in China. Li, a married twenty-two-year-old college student, sought treatment there in 1937 for his anxiety disorder. In ten months with therapist Bingham Dai (1899-1996), Li worked out his secret desire for homosexual and extramarital relations. Dai, trained in sociology at the University of Chicago, interpreted Li's condition in terms of the psychology of…
Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific
Y. Yvon Wang. Reinventing Licentiousness
Y. Yvon Wang’s Reinventing Licentiousness: Pornography and Modern China explores the regulation of licentiousness (yin) in China from the seventeenth to the mid-twentieth century. Drawing on a rich array of sources, the book is impressive in its ambition and detailed in the way it traces recursive tropes of cultural authorization in the history of sexually explicit publications. The most significant intervention of this book stems from its longue…
Contested Minds Across Time
Translators of the Soul
This essay argues that Asian psychoanalysts developed a new style of science, what I call transcultural reasoning, in the twentieth century. This conceptual innovation drew on the power of cultural narratives to elucidate the unconscious mind across different historical and geographical contexts. Focusing on the life and work of two experts in particular, Bingham Dai (1899–1996) and Pow-Meng Yap (1921–71), this article reconsiders the role of bio…
Tributes to Jingyuan Zhang and Psychoanalysis in China
Judith Farquhar, A Way of Life
A preeminent anthropologist of medicine, popular culture, everyday life and the body, Judith Farquhar is especially well-known for her work on the anthropology of Chinese medicine. A Way of Life is essentially a printed version of the Dwight H. Terry Lectures she delivered at Yale University in 2017. The Terry Lectureship is known for inviting world-class scholars to discuss the relationship between science, religion and philosophy, with an empha…
Histories and cultures of mental health in Modern East Asia
Castration fever
This essay considers the evolution of the author's research over the last 15 years in which the treatment of castration as a historical problem holds promise for bridging disparate scholarly fields and paradigms. In particular, by tracing the shift in the author's intellectual focus from the science of sex change to the history of transcultural psychoanalysis, some insights are offered in regard to the intertwined politics of transness, Chinesene…
Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies
Emily Baum. The Invention of Madness
In this breath-taking book, Emily Baum tells the story of how Chinese urbanites came to embrace Western psychiatric practice and biomedical conceptions of mental health. The crux of the narrative centers on the period between 1908, the year Beijing erected its first insane asylum, and 1937, the summer of which witnessed the Japanese invasion of the city. In the short span of three decades, Chinese families learned to exploit municipal aid by seek…
Gay Marriage in Taiwan and The Struggle for Recognition
Advances for minority rights in Taiwan may help make the case for independence at a time when China has increased pressure for reunification and faces protests in Hong Kong
The Making of the Human Sciences in China
This volume provides a history of how “the human” has been constituted as a subject of scientific inquiry in China from the seventeenth century to the present. Organized around four themes—“Parameters of Human Life,” “Formations of the Human Subject,” “Disciplining Knowledge,” and “Deciphering Health”—it scrutinizes the development of scientific knowledge and technical interest in human organization within an evolving Chinese society. Spanning th…
Sexuality in China
What was sex like in China, from imperial times through the post-Mao era? The answer depends, of course, on who was having sex, where they were located in time and place, and what kind of familial, social, and political structures they participated in. This collection offers a variety of perspectives by addressing diverse topics such as polygamy, pornography, free love, eugenics, sexology, crimes of passion, homosexuality, intersexuality, transse…
A Queer Invention in Taiwan
Trans-in-Asia, Asia-in-Trans
Trans*historicities”
“Trans*historicities: A Roundtable Discussion” offers reflections on how thinking about time and chronology has impacted scholarship in trans studies in recent years. Contributing scholars come from numerous disciplines that touch on history, and have expertise in far-ranging geographic and temporal fields. As a broad conversation about some of the potential possibilities and difficulties in seeking out—and finding—trans in historical contexts, t…
Queering the transnational turn
In recent years, queer studies has increasingly interrogated the racial and colonial unconscious embedded in the earlier studies of non-normative genders and sexualities through the critical frameworks of queer of color critique and queer diaspora studies. This article aims to 'queer the transnational turn' by considering what critical edge 'regionalism' might bring to the investigation of queer modernities in Asia from both contemporary and hist…
Queer Sinophone Cultures
This essay offers a queer Sinophone approach to examine how lesbian desire and queerness depicted in novels by women's writers such as Chan Ran and Wong Bik-wan from Mainland China and Hong Kong deconstruct narratives of Chinese modernity and heteronormative transnational kinship
Epistemic Modernity and the Emergence of Homosexuality in China
Centred on two Republican‐era Chinese sexologists, Zhang Jingsheng (1888–1970) and Pan Guangdan (1899–1967), this article explores the intellectual context in which the western category of ‘homosexuality’ was introduced to Chinese culture, thereby highlighting its production of a key epistemological rearrangement in the social significance of same‐sex desire in modern China. The article proposes and develops the analytic rubric of ‘epistemic mode…
Trans*historicities”
“Trans*historicities: A Roundtable Discussion” offers reflections on how thinking about time and chronology has impacted scholarship in trans studies in recent years. Contributing scholars come from numerous disciplines that touch on history, and have expertise in far-ranging geographic and temporal fields. As a broad conversation about some of the potential possibilities and difficulties in seeking out—and finding—trans in historical contexts, t…
Liberating sex, knowing desire
This study considers the role of epistemic turning points in the historiography of sexuality. Disentangling the historical complexity of "scientia sexualis," I argue that the late 19th century and the mid-20th century constitute two critical epistemic junctures in the genealogy of sexual liberation, as the notion of free love slowly gave way to the idea of sexual freedom in modern western society. I also explore the value of the Foucauldian appro…
Trans-in-Asia, Asia-in-Trans
Queering China
Four recent books attest to how much remains to be understood about queer Chinese cultures, both historically and in the contemporary period, especially in relation to their wider global contexts. While varying by discipline and approach, these books converge around a common set of analytical agendas: casting light on the importance of language and its discursive reach in popular understandings of same-sex desire, overturning the problem of long-…
Translating culture and psychiatry across the Pacific
This article examines the development of koro's epistemic status as a paradigm for understanding culture-specific disorders in modern psychiatry. Koro entered the DSM-IV as a culture-bound syndrome in 1994, and it refers to a person's overpowering belief that his (or her) genitalia is retracting and even disappearing. I focus in particular on mental health professionals' competing views of koro in the 1960s-as an object of psychoanalysis, a Chine…
Roundtable
In this roundtable, scholars respond to the following guiding questions of the special issue: Racial capitalism in US scholarship is necessarily and rightfully narrated through the Transatlantic slave trade. While this is a globally relevant history for understanding the past and the present of transnational racial orders, what other histories and present modes of capitalist accumulation are relevant to telling a global history of racial capitali…
Trans without Borders
Contested Minds Across Time
Histories and cultures of mental health in Modern East Asia
Sinophone
This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, “Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies,” revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; other…
Rethinking ‘style’ for historians and philosophers of science
Effecting science, affecting medicine
Despite the well-documented intensive battle between Alfred Kinsey and American psychiatrists around the mid-twentieth century, this paper argues that Kinsey's work, in fact, played a significant role in transforming mental health experts' view of homosexuality starting as far back as the late 1940s and extending all the way through the mid-1960s. After analyzing the way in which Kinsey's work pushed American psychiatrists to re-evaluate their un…
The Conceptual Contours of Sex in the Chinese Life Sciences
This paper “maps” a number of trajectories through which the conceptual contours of sex could be traced in the bioscientific discourse of Republican China. Focusing on the writings of the embryologist Zhu Xi (1899–1962), I analyze the epistemic functionality of such biological terms as ci (“biological femaleness”) and xiong (“biological maleness”) that acquired an unprecedented scope of cultural discursiveness in China only alongside the arrival …
Effecting science, affecting medicine
Despite the well-documented intensive battle between Alfred Kinsey and American psychiatrists around the mid-twentieth century, this paper argues that Kinsey's work, in fact, played a significant role in transforming mental health experts' view of homosexuality starting as far back as the late 1940s and extending all the way through the mid-1960s. After analyzing the way in which Kinsey's work pushed American psychiatrists to re-evaluate their un…
Rethinking ‘style’ for historians and philosophers of science
Scripting Sex in the Ottoman Middle East
Book Review| April 01 2009 SCRIPTING SEX IN THE OTTOMAN MIDDLE EAST Producing Desire: Changing Sexual Discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900 Dror Ze'evi Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. xv + 223 pp. Howard H. Chiang Howard H. Chiang Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2009) 15 (2): 341–343. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2008-145 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo…
Epistemic Modernity and the Emergence of Homosexuality in China
Centred on two Republican‐era Chinese sexologists, Zhang Jingsheng (1888–1970) and Pan Guangdan (1899–1967), this article explores the intellectual context in which the western category of ‘homosexuality’ was introduced to Chinese culture, thereby highlighting its production of a key epistemological rearrangement in the social significance of same‐sex desire in modern China. The article proposes and develops the analytic rubric of ‘epistemic mode…
Liberating sex, knowing desire
This study considers the role of epistemic turning points in the historiography of sexuality. Disentangling the historical complexity of "scientia sexualis," I argue that the late 19th century and the mid-20th century constitute two critical epistemic junctures in the genealogy of sexual liberation, as the notion of free love slowly gave way to the idea of sexual freedom in modern western society. I also explore the value of the Foucauldian appro…
Sinophone Production and Trans Postcoloniality
Research Article| March 01 2011 Sinophone Production and Trans Postcoloniality: Sex Change from Major to Minor Transnational China Howard Chiang Howard Chiang Princeton University [email protected] Howard Chiang is a PhD candidate in the History of Science Program at Princeton University. He is the guest editor of the topical cluster on "Queer Transnationalism in China" of this ELN issue. His articles have appeared in Gender & History, Histor…
Imagining Transgender China
Sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld's Die Transvestiten (1910) and anthropologist Esther Newton's Mother Camp (1972) exemplify a rich tradition of scholarly thought and analysis on gender variance in the twentieth century.1 Nonetheless, it was only in the last two decades that an explosion of academic interest in transgender topics became ever more pronounced. In the 1970s and 1980s, social, political, cultural, and intellectual trends paved the way for…
Transgender China
This volume brings together experts with diverse disciplinary backgrounds in the China field, from cultural studies to history to musicology, to make a timely intervention—from the historical demise o
Patricia Gherovici, Please Select Your Gender
Please Select Your Gender is an ambitious book written by a practising Lacanian analyst. At first glance, its refreshing approach of relating the history of hysteria to clinical vignettes of transsexual experience promises to be a welcome contribution to the field of transgender studies, which is heavily oriented towards literary theory and cultural criticism. For historians of medicine, the most relevant aspect of the book also defines the autho…
Queer Sinophone Cultures
This essay offers a queer Sinophone approach to examine how lesbian desire and queerness depicted in novels by women's writers such as Chan Ran and Wong Bik-wan from Mainland China and Hong Kong deconstruct narratives of Chinese modernity and heteronormative transnational kinship
Sinophone
This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, “Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies,” revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; other…
Archiving Peripheral Taiwan
This article extends debates on the place of Taiwan on our scholarly canvas by highlighting the region's unique status at the intersections of various margins-geopolitical, sociocultural, and historiographical. Using press reports of renyao ("human prodigy," a Chinese category of transgenderism) in the post-World War II period as the foci of analysis, this article supersedes existing readings that tend to emphasize the lifting of martial law in 1…
Queering China
Four recent books attest to how much remains to be understood about queer Chinese cultures, both historically and in the contemporary period, especially in relation to their wider global contexts. While varying by discipline and approach, these books converge around a common set of analytical agendas: casting light on the importance of language and its discursive reach in popular understandings of same-sex desire, overturning the problem of long-…
Translating culture and psychiatry across the Pacific
This article examines the development of koro's epistemic status as a paradigm for understanding culture-specific disorders in modern psychiatry. Koro entered the DSM-IV as a culture-bound syndrome in 1994, and it refers to a person's overpowering belief that his (or her) genitalia is retracting and even disappearing. I focus in particular on mental health professionals' competing views of koro in the 1960s-as an object of psychoanalysis, a Chine…
Ordering the social
In The Order of Things (1966 [1970]), Michel Foucault unearths the discursive redistribution of the episteme underlying the process 'when man constituted him-self in Western culture as both that which must be conceived of and that which is to be known'.1 His investigation into the historical epistemology of what he called sciences humaines (a term that dates back at least to the 17th-century) has prompted historians of western science to dig deep…
Perverse Taiwan
Building biophysics in China
Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China
Queering the transnational turn
In recent years, queer studies has increasingly interrogated the racial and colonial unconscious embedded in the earlier studies of non-normative genders and sexualities through the critical frameworks of queer of color critique and queer diaspora studies. This article aims to 'queer the transnational turn' by considering what critical edge 'regionalism' might bring to the investigation of queer modernities in Asia from both contemporary and hist…
Asia is burning
From Postcolonial to Subimperial Formations of Medicine
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal - Volume 11, Number 4, December 2017
Gender Transformations in Sinophone Taiwan
In the summer of 1953, the United Daily News (聯合報) in Taiwan announced the sex change surgery of the “first” Chinese transsexual, Xie Jianshun (謝尖順). Xie's story soon triggered an avalanche of media sensationalism in postwar Taiwan. This article adds greater historical depth to this episode of trans-culturation by examining other accounts of unusual bodily condition that the press brought to light in response to Xie's story. The author focuses on…
Égalité des relations intimes et Soi(s) transparent(s)
En mai 2013, le Tribunal d'appel de Hong Kong a décidé d'autoriser les transsexuel∙le∙s à se marier selon leur genre acquis par réattribution plutôt que selon leur sexe de naissance. Ce jugement qui a fait date, W v the Registrar of marriages , a été considéré par beaucoup comme un événement déterminant pour le mouvement en faveur des droits LGBT dans les communautés sinophones. En examinant minutieusement à la fois les déclarations majoritaires …
Sexuality in China
What was sex like in China, from imperial times through the post-Mao era? The answer depends, of course, on who was having sex, where they were located in time and place, and what kind of familial, social, and political structures they participated in. This collection offers a variety of perspectives by addressing diverse topics such as polygamy, pornography, free love, eugenics, sexology, crimes of passion, homosexuality, intersexuality, transse…
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