Sons, husbands, and lovers: marriage, filial piety, and transgender men in Chinese media

"China's 2009 new regulations on sex-change operations were passed with the stated intention of protecting patients. These regulations offer the only path to legal gender change on ID documents, becoming a necessary condition to be fulfilled before participating in legal, public, and heteronormative institutions such as marriage, family, and adoption. Looking at the relationship between Chinese media discourse on transgender before and after the formation and promulgation of the 2009 sex-change regulations suggests the construction of a legal, heteronormative transgender man, often at the cost of constituting other expressions of transgender as sexually deviant and morally corrupting forces that threaten Chinese society. From transgender celebrities in the media to online public ""accusations"" of lesbianism, I examine both state and social media discourse on transgender, revealing a complex and dynamic relationship between law, filial piety, and gender in contemporary China."

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

East Asian Studies

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2016

Author dc:creator

• Potter, Christian

Contributors dc:contributor

• Shao, Dan

• China
• Chinese
• Media
• Gender
• Transgender
• Filial Piety
• Marriage
• Gender Reassignment Surgery
• Legal
• Regulations
• Mothers and sons
• Identity

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2016 Christian Potter

Language dc:language

en

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/90536

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/90536