https://www.genderlibs.org/tags/media-history/Recent content in Media History on GenderLibsHugoenCopyright © 2024-2026 GenderLibs. All Rights Reserved.Sat, 19 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0700https://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2026/09/chen-lili-pageant-eligibility-history/Sat, 19 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0700https://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2026/09/chen-lili-pageant-eligibility-history/Abstract In 2004, Chen Lili (陈莉莉), a transgender woman from Sichuan, registered for the Sichuan selection of Miss Universe China and passed through a rapid sequence of institutional states: local registration, provisional acceptance, higher-level rule interpretation, cancellation of competitive eligibility, and a later appearance on the same stage as a special guest. During the same year, Beijing model Yang Yuan was removed from the Misshttps://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2026/09/zhang-kesha-public-narrative-history/Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0700https://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2026/09/zhang-kesha-public-narrative-history/Abstract On January 10, 1983, Zhang Kesha underwent surgery in the plastic-surgery service of the Third Hospital of Beijing Medical College. A 2026 institutional retrospective from Peking University Third Hospital describes the procedure as China’s first male-to-female gender-reassignment operation and emphasizes the strict confidentiality surrounding the case. Twenty years later, in 2003, Zhang appeared under her own name in reports by Xinhua, Southern Metropolishttps://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2026/09/liu-ting-moral-model-public-credential-history/Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0700https://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2026/09/liu-ting-moral-model-public-credential-history/Abstract In 2005, Liu Ting entered national news under the historical public name Liu Ting then used, written 刘霆, after bringing her mother, who had uremia, to live near Zhejiang Forestry University while she studied and provided daily care. Her mother received a kidney transplant in 2006, and the caregiving story continued to circulate through Spring Festival features, local honors, public-benefit activities, and awards. In 2007 she receivedhttps://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2026/08/transgender-vocabulary-stratigraphy/Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0700https://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2026/08/transgender-vocabulary-stratigraphy/Abstract Over the last four decades, public language for gender transition, transgender identity, and gender diversity in mainland China has accumulated through several institutional channels. State newspapers since the 1980s placed gender nonconformity within medical, social, and governance frames. In the 1990s, bianxing ren (变性人, literally a person who has “changed sex”) became highly visible