Howard Chiang proposes a new paradigm for doing transgender history in which geopolitics assumes central importance. Defined as the antidote to transphobia, transtopia challenges a minoritarian view of transgender experience and makes room for the variability of transness on a historical continuum.

A fascinating, persuasive analysis...this book makes a rich and imaginative contribution to discussions about
the psychobiological understandings of sex and sexuality that emerged in China in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.