Eunuchs In China

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A little about Eunuchs in the world and in China:

What are Eunuchs and How are Eunuchs Made? Why Use Eunuchs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5KPp1bcTec

Eunuchs Power in the chinese imperium | Chinas Forbidden City

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B59suyvfoxs

Eunuchs In China

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmMQYSZn9Ig

HISTORY OF EUNUCHS IN CHINA - CHINESE EUNUCHS DOCUMENTARY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bED-91ij4u8

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How China Became a “Castrated Civilization” and Eunuchs a “Third Sex”

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/H ... 692bc148de

How China Became a “Castrated Civilization” and Eunuchs a “Third Sex”

H. Chiang

Published 2012

History

Although eunuchs had played an important role in the history of imperial China, it is surprising how little attention historians have paid to the actual measures of Chinese castration. Like footbinding, castration stands as one of the most important objects of Sinological criticism today. Both have come to represent powerful symbols of backwardness, oppression, despotism, and national shame in modern Chinese historiography. Starting in the early Republican period, cultural commentators often…

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ ... tion_and_e unuchs_the_third_sex_121112.pdf

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On November 25, 1924, the eunuch system was finally banned in China, thus ending an era that had endured for over 3,000 years and through 25 dynasties.

Records of eunuchs in China date back to the Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BCE), when the Shang kings castrated prisoners of war. In the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BCE), eunuch slaves performed forced labor on state projects, including the manufacturing of the Terracotta Army.

In ancient times, castration was not only a traditional punishment (it was one of the Five Punishments, the other four being: tattooing the face; cutting off the nose; cutting off the feet; and death), but also a means of gaining employment in the Imperial Service.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644 CE), there were about 70,000 eunuchs employed by the emperor, with some serving inside the Imperial Palace. The logic ran that, since they were incapable of having children, they would not be tempted to seize power and start a dynasty of their own. This did not stop certain eunuchs gaining immense power, including famous explorer Zheng He (1371-1433 CE).

Castration included removal of the penis as well as the testicles, all done with the single slice of a knife. A quill made from a bird feather was inserted into the urethra to prevent it getting blocked as the wound healed.

The agonizing process was often done at home and could be lethal; self-castration was a common practice among the ambitious, although it was not always performed completely, which led to its being made illegal.

With the end of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) so came the end of tradition. Spare a thought for poor Sun Yaoting, the last surviving imperial eunuch of Chinese history who died in 1996. He was castrated at the age of eight by his father with a single swoop of a razor – the year was 1911, mere months before the last emperor, Puyi, was deposed...

EUNUCHS IN CHINA

https://factsanddetails.com/china/cat2/ ... tem43.html

China's Eunuch Museum

http://www.china.org.cn/english/travel/234805.htm

Eunuchs' retired life

http://www.china.org.cn/english/travel/234807.htm

Last eunuch in China

http://www.china.org.cn/english/travel/234810.htm

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CHRISTOPHER VS. COLUMBUS

https://u.osu.edu/christophervscolumbus ... B8%8A%E5%B 0%87-admiral-zheng-he/

Zheng He's Art of Collaboration: Pt 1. Explorer and manager

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXZxQmWdgA0

Zheng He's Art of Collaboration: Pt 2. Admiral and leader

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StH6LR8Fpic

Zheng He's Art of Collaboration: Pt 3. Supply chain pioneer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxcZuO8ci8A

Discover Malaysia: Chinese Admiral Zheng He museum in Malacca

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpbv2hXIRAE

Zheng He

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_He

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E

unuch slaves performed forced labor on state projects, including the manufacturing of the Terracotta Army:

The greatest archaeological find of the 20th century - BBC News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c_ADqshdSA

Terracotta Army-Ancient China-Real Faces-Part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1ojdnvOXS0

National Geographic China's Ghost Army Terracotta Warriors 2010 YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-1IcaeuGnw

The Terracotta Army Of China's First Emperor | Qin Shi Huang Di | Timeline

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDsDLayV5Fw

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While the Official practice is now banned, Accidents do happen and some of them are Darwin award winners. sometimes just an accident that goes terribly wrong.and a man becomes a Eunuch without trying to. What of them in China today?

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While the Official practice is now banned, Accidents do happen and some of them are Darwin award winners. sometimes just an accident that goes terribly wrong.and a man becomes a Eunuch without trying to. What of them in China today?

It seems to me that some traditions have survived, but not at the official level, of course. I had friends (on the EA P.) who were interested in such modifications ... not as a result of an accident.

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Howard Chiang "After Eunuchs", p.546

Columbia University Press, New York, 2018

(free download, epub, 119.24 MB)

https://jp.b-ok.africa/book/5912415/6c42de

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Howard Chiang "TAIWAN’S PLACE IN GLOBAL TRANS HISTORY"

https://taiwaninsight.org/2018/02/07/ta ... s-history/

A new era for trans history has arrived. Like most historical fields that emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century, the study of trans experiences in the past has been pulled at all sides by the social and cultural history surrounding it. Leslie Feinberg’s classic, Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman (1996), spoke to the growing institutionalisation of “transgender” as an umbrella term, bringing together different scholarly works on gender diversity.

The aim of the book was to show that people who crossed gender boundaries had always existed historically. It responded to two urgent shortcomings in the field of queer history: the hegemonic concerns of lesbian and gay subjects (and historians) and the consequences of the absence of any serious interest in trans issues implicitly effecting the marginalisation of gender variant subjects in the queer historical experience. By the early twenty-first century, historians such as Joanne Meyerowitz and Susan Stryker probed with greater nuance the interplay between the demand of trans people, popular culture, medical science, and the state.

Throughout transsexual history, certain individuals have tended to usurp the limelight. Of these, Christine Jorgensen (1926-1989) has left the deepest impression. In the early 1950s, Jorgensen travelled to Denmark to receive her sex-reassignment surgery. Upon returning to the United States, she surrendered to her celebrity and became a glamourous star who promoted wider awareness of transsexuality. She worked closely with her endocrinologist, Harry Benjamin (1885-1986), who helped to bring the treatment of transsexual patients to the mainstream. In 1966, Benjamin published the first comprehensive scholarly monograph on transsexuality, The Transsexual Phenomenon. At a time when most medical experts were hostile to the request of transsexual patients, Benjamin stood out as a rare and important ally.

More recently, historians have begun to move away from the central narrative of transsexual history that revolved around the Jorgensen-Benjamin nexus. Alison Oram’s Her Husband was a Woman!: Women’s Gender-Crossing Modern British Culture (2007) shows that the power of medical technology to physically transform sex was widely publicised in 1930s Britain.

Most of these surgeries were carried out by the endocrinologist-surgeon Lennox Ross Broster (1889-1965) at Charing Cross Hospital in London. Of course, stories of sex change operations had circulated in Europe before that. But it was Broster’s work that pushed for an understanding of sex mutability more firmly grounded in the endocrine sciences. Afsaneh Najmabadi’s Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran (2013) has further shifted our attention away from the American narrative by scrutinising the way that religion, science, law, popular culture, and activism work in concert to enable trans people to turn Iran into a habitable Islamic state.

It is this growing scholarly dialogue about the global history of transsexuality that my book, After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China (2018), joins. The book analyses the history of sex change in China from the demise of eunuchism in the late Qing era to the emergence of transsexuality in Cold War Taiwan. One of the most surprising discoveries during this research was that the Taiwanese press sustained a long period of interest in the story of the “Christine of Free China,” Xie Jianshun, in the 1950s. Born in Chaozhou, Canton on January 24, 1918, Xie arrived in Taiwan with the Nationalist Army in 1949. When his intersex condition was confirmed in a hospital in Tainan, doctors initiated a series of “sex change” surgeries and claimed that they had successfully transformed Xie’s sex. Alluding to Jorgensen, Xie’s nickname “Chinese Christine” reflected the influence of American culture on the Republic of China at the peak of the Cold War. In the aftermath of the media sensationalism showered on Xie, Taiwanese journalists began to report with increasing intensity on stories of gender transgression, intersexuality, and other unusual medical conditions of the body.

There are two major contributions that emerge from my account of the Xie story. First, in incorporating this episode of trans awareness into a larger narrative about China, I am not making a political statement about how Taiwan should be naturally understood as part of China.

In fact, quite the contrary. At the end of the book, I conclude that Sinophone communities such as Taiwan have begun to replace earlier agents of colonial modernity (e.g., Japan) in mediating the transmission of sexual categorisations and identity politics into Chinese culture. As such, the Sinophone recasting of transsexual Taiwan via the case of Xie is precisely intended to highlight the historically embedded and politically contested relationship between Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China. Relatedly, it’s meant to call attention to the potential ways of queering our writing of the “Chinese” or “Taiwanese” past.

Second, the story of Xie offers a cautionary tale about narrating the global history of transsexuality through a homogenising rhetoric that presumes the replication of the Jorgensen saga in different parts of the world. What it shows instead is the malleable traction of the very concept of transsexuality itself. It is a missed opportunity to simply dismiss the power of analogy between the American and the Chinese Christine. The differences between Xie and Jorgensen—and other sex change stories worldwide—make it unambiguous. It’s time to put behind a rigid approach when conceptualising trans bodies, transness itself, and the way we historicise them in the twenty-first century.

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Leslie Feinberg "TRANSGENDER WARRIORS: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman"

http://www.beacon.org/Transgender-Warriors-P463.aspx

Chloe Hadjimatheou "Christine Jorgensen: 60 years of sex change ops"

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20544095

Howard Chiang, Yin Wang "Perverse Taiwan"

https://www.routledge.com/Perverse-Taiw ... 1138227965

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Balls of Steel

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ ... llsOfSteel

The man's leg kicks towards the hero's groin. It hits him, hard enough to take down a lesser man. But not this hero! This hero has balls of steel and won't crumple even if a truck drives into his groin.

This is a subversion of Groin Attack, which is where a male character gets hit in his genitalia and goes down.

Typical justifications of this trope include the target wearing a codpiece, lacking genitalia where he is being hit (especially common in Speculative Fiction, but can also happen if a man's already been castrated and thus has Disability Immunity), or being female (incidentally, a Groin Attack on a female in real life is nearly as effective and dangerous as it is when used against a man, though it is considered less funny).

To add extra humour, the person doing the attack may actually hurt themselves attempting the Groin Attack. Cue several seconds of cursing and clutching at the affected area—long enough for the attacked to retaliate.

Not to Be Confused with Brass Balls, nor boules of steel. Not really related to Nerves of Steel, which is less literal than this trope. Subtrope of Super Sex Organs and No-Sell. Overlaps with Kung Fu-Proof Mook if the target of the Groin Attack attempt is, well, a Mook. Funnily enough is Truth in Television with Shaolin Monks claiming that there is a practice for this, complete with video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VP9M4iR8TQ

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ТОП NUTS FU GIF

https://gfycat.com/ru/discover/nuts-fu-gifs