 A growing number of recent works in Asian American feminism engage with figures and themes in Continental feminism through the framework Eastern philosophy and the Asian American women’s perspective and as such they provide new directions for a genuinely transContinental feminism. For example, building on the discussions concerning gender in Continental feminisms, thinkers such as Kyoo Lee (2014) and Robin Wang (2016) have explored different ways that the gendered body has been discussed. Engaging with the concept of the “dark female animal” (xuapin) in Daodejing, Kyoo Lee explores the revolutionary potential of xuapin, which she claims possesses a gender-bending power. Lee argues that xuapin demonstrates