#BOTD in #ChineseHistory: Chow Tse-Tsung 周策縱 (1916–2007), #historian and scholar of #Redology #紅學 (study of the Dream of the Red Chamber #紅樓夢). Professor @UWMadison, his signature work is The #MayFourth Movement (left image: https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/ADOTTRP5RA7IOR8W). #五四

To tie it all together, I also haven't found any discussion anywhere of The Story of the Stone as a trans novel, which is bizarre to me and must mean a) I'm being too forward with my labels; b) East Asian studies/Redology is in a certain place; c) I'm still bad at searching JSTOR; d) any or all.

#litodons #queerlit #redology #infrastructuredisasterasheterosocialparadigm