The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China

Author/Contributor(s):	Sommer, Matthew H
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	03/19/2024
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

This book is a groundbreaking study of transgender lives and practices in late imperial China. Through close readings of court cases, as well as Ming and Qing fiction and nineteenth-century newspaper accounts, Matthew H. Sommer examines the social, legal, and cultural histories of gender crossing.