...Howard Chiang This article extends debates on the place of Taiwan on our scholarly canvas by highlighting the region's unique status at the intersections of various margins—geopolitical, sociocultural, and historiographical. Using press reports of renyao (“human prodigy,” a Chinese category...

...,” Howard Chiang proposes that historiography and the very act of writing history itself can amount to a form of queer archiving. Such is his focus in the archiving of transgendered figures in nineteenth- and twentieth- century Taiwan, through the conceptual category of renyao — a mainland Chinese...