Queering Gender, Sexuality, and Becoming-Human in Qing Dynasty Zhiguai

Thomas William Whyke is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham, Ningbo China.Melissa Shani Brown is affiliated with the Faculty of East Asian Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.

• 1. Introduction – Reading the Strange Tales Queerly.- 2. Queerying Identity – Intersecting Identities in Qing Dynasty China.- 3. Transformation as the Nature of Things – Queering the Non/Human in Qing Dynasty Zhiguai.- 4. Alternating States – Queerying Non/Binary Gender in Qing Dynasty Zhiguai.- 5. Strange Women – Queerying Female Sexuality in Qing Dynasty Zhiguai.- 6. Strange Men – Queerying Male Sexuality in Qing Dynasty Zhiguai.- 7. Becoming Perverse – Pornography and Queer Equality in Zhiguai.- 8. Coda – The Resilience of the Strange.