Using Beijing, Shanghai, Guiyang, Jiangsu, Shenyang, and networked archives as observation points, this research encyclopedia explains why transgender public history forms dense documentary clusters in a small number of cities and introduces an evidence-geography matrix and a city-interface ledger.

Reconstructing Chen Lili’s 2004 Miss Universe Sichuan eligibility dispute alongside the distinct cases of Yang Yuan, Liu Xiaojing, and Cheng Lili, this essay uses an eligibility stack and a name-event provenance ledger to explain how legal female status, pageant rules, stage visibility, and later digital archival collision diverged.

An institutional archive guide to four decades of Peking University Third Hospital webpages, departmental histories, clinic guides, policy documents, clinical studies, and community-preserved copies, tracing how transgender medicine moved from a surgical case record to multidisciplinary care and research cohorts.

A historical-source guide that separates public self-identification and names, media labels, medical and administrative terms, and present-day editorial description, while tracking each naming event across time.