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TSQ (2018) 5 (3): 464–472.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Yiu Fai Chow Abstract This essay introduces Kiki, a transgender sex worker in Hong Kong, who is not adopting the term transgender and is not particularly involved with the transgender movement. Rather, she chose a particular Chinese term to conjure, evince, and categorize herself: renyao . While...
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TSQ (2016) 3 (3-4): 433–447.
Published: 01 November 2016
... highlight the nickname of the volleyball team (“the iron ladies”), the Cantonese title Renyao da paiqui ( Kathoeys Play Volleyball ) deliberately plays up the fact that the volleyball team is made up of kathoey members. Renyao (or Jan-jiu in Cantonese romanization), used to translate kathoey...
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TSQ (2021) 8 (3): 310–326.
Published: 01 August 2021
... with a woman because she kept staring at Sasha. A quick-tempered person, Sasha looked back at the woman and snapped at her: “What are you looking at?!” The bicker soon ended with the two calling each other names: the woman calling Sasha renyao (human monster), 12 while Sasha returning with “flat glass...
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Published: 01 August 2018
Figure 2. Kiki's sex service advertisement on an online forum, roughly translated as “Hi, I am renyao KiKi! Renyao exist not only in Thailand, also in Hong Kong! 34D/23/33, 1.67 m, 46 kg, fair skin, slim and tall. I understand what men want, I know how to titillate men's senses, and I'll
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TSQ (2016) 3 (1-2): 259–265.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of gender and sexuality. 1. Transgender is translated into kuaxingbie 跨性别 in Mandarin. Although it has gradually gained popularity in academia and activism, it still remains unfamiliar to the public. Comparably, terms such as bianxingren 变性人 (transsexual), renyao 人妖 (lady boy), and fanchuan 反...
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TSQ (2016) 3 (3-4): 333–356.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., disrupt such hierarchical linguistic practices and offer alternative languages for conceptualizing and representing trans/gender-variant subjects. As in Jarrín's analysis, Leung points to how terms such as travesti , kathoey , and renyao come to form a constitutive outside for a rights-based discourse...