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"modern def of masculinity/femininity tend to be articulated in a western biomedical lexicon and its cognate understandings of the human body. the absence of a chinese word for sex until the 1910s suggests that depictions of eunuchs as a third sex people tells us more about our modern conceptual preoccupations than the historical experiences of eunuchs themselves" - howard chiang about chinese imperial court eunuchs.