A custom that inspired storytellers– formal homoerotic unions between AMAB people in Fujian province during the Ming dynasty

Part 1 of "The tale of 16th c. transgender mother You Ruiniang in Li Yu’s Wushengxi"

“The Virtuous Transgender Mother Relocates Her Child Thrice for His Education” is the sixth short story in late Ming/early Qing writer 李渔 Li Yu’s 《无声戏》Wushengxi collection.[i] You might have already come across a brief synopsis of the later part of You Ruiniang’s story in 2 stories of transgender mothers who protected children from cisgender predators, but there is much more to the tale of You Ruiniang.