A research encyclopedia entry tracing legal gender recognition in mainland China through household registration, resident identity cards, gender appraisal, local public-security procedures, and downstream institutional records, with an original document-cascade model.
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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.
A historical map of organizational carriers, service networks, medical referral, community knowledge, and digital preservation in mainland Chinese transgender advocacy from 1995 to 2025.
Using hospital records, media narratives, administrative rules, community hotlines, litigation and surveys, and digital archives, this study reconstructs mainland China’s transgender public history through six documentary regimes and a reproducible source-card method.
Using 2006 forum traces, a 2009 Tieba community anchor, a 2017 cross-platform index, and tags still active in 2026, this guide develops a three-clock evidence method for reconstructing the platform migrations, taxonomies, and community memory of Chinese transformation fiction.
A practical comparison of transformation-fiction mechanisms through five fields: bodily carrier, acting viewpoint, memory and skills, social identity, and reversibility/control, grounded in current Chinese and Japanese platform usage and representative works.
A case study of Ranma ½ that models transformation through three interacting layers: bodily state, character continuity, and the social memory carried across each switch.
A research encyclopedia entry traces how Japanese 男の娘 (otokonoko) moved through publishing, cosplay, physical venues, creator self-description, and platform tags from a media-character category into several forms of real-person labeling.
A historical essay separates the origin question into three clocks—terms, media characters, and embodied practice—to trace how Japanese otokonoko publishing, cosplay, and Chinese platform language converged.
A substantial research map that organizes nanniang, weiniang, cross-dressing, otokonoko, Nanliang, and related materials through six reusable entry points: speaker, referent and practice, page position, historical pathway, community circulation, and strength of evidence.