@inbook{9dade58b5b6c40d5a14e443f0c293338,
title = "Alternating States: Queerying Non/Binary Gender in Qing Dynasty Zhiguai",
abstract = "This is the second chapter in this book to explore somatic instability: here we discuss zhiguai tales that represent changes in gender. That characters naturally transform from one gender to another destabilises gender as an unalterable identity, and situates gender transformations as a facet of nature. We trace out a variety of patterns present in these tales—some depict changes more positively than others. Women transforming into men, for example, is depicted far more positively than men transforming into women—part of a wider pattern where such changes are treated as forms of reward or punishment, respectively. We finish with an exploration of tales which more radically trouble gender as a binary state.",
keywords = "Gender in Chinese literature, Genderqueer, Intersexuality, Ji Yun, Non/binary gender, Pu Songling, Queer theory, Transgender, Yuan Mei, Zhiguai",
author = "Whyke, {Thomas William} and Brown, {Melissa Shani}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.1007/978-981-99-4258-9_4",
language = "English",
series = "Palgrave Series in Asia and Pacific Studies",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "109--136",
booktitle = "Palgrave Series in Asia and Pacific Studies",
}