A media history of Jin Xing from the reported cancellation of a television judgeship linked to her transgender history in 2011 through talk-show hosting, repeated reality-TV mentorship, and the 2015 launch of The Jin Xing Show, proposing a four-stage role-legitimacy ladder for transgender public visibility.
This research map organizes public transgender history in mainland China into seven intersecting paths—medicine, identity documents, work and courts, community infrastructure, public language, documentary regimes, and digital preservation—and introduces a historical conversion chain plus a source-switch method for reproducible reading.
A fixed-sample observatory of government rules, hospital pages, community surveys, litigation records, community archives, web archives, and search indexes, proposing a source-survival stack and discovery-redundancy model for mainland China’s transgender history.
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.
A case study of the Guiyang Mr C transgender employment dispute, tracing how labor arbitration, wrongful-dismissal litigation, personality-rights litigation, and appeal translated gender identity, gender expression, and equal employment into a durable judicial record.
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.
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.