CRASSH

Reproducing China: Childbirth, One Child, and Beyond

Panel 1: Bodies and sexuality

Howard Chiang (Princeton University and Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Sex and the making of China: From eunuchs to transsexuals

 David Luesink (Indiana University—Purdue University Indianapolis)
The politics of translation and standardisation of terminologies for reproductive anatomy in China

 Sun Liying (University of Heidelberg)
Natural breasts (tianru)? Breast-(un)binding, breastfeeding, beauty and body

Panel 2: Fertility and medicine

Vivienne Lo (University College London)
Aphrodisiacs, conception and yangsheng in China

Volker Scheid  (University of Westminster)
How did the general become a chicken? The ungendering of constraint (yuzheng) in Chinese medicine

Elisabeth Hsu (University of Oxford)
Qi in reproduction, tactility in childcare, sociality in the house: Revisiting (scientific) concepts of matter

Panel 3: Life and Biopolitics

Christos Lynteris (University of Cambridge)
China's New Bioeconomic Policy: Reproducing Migrant Bodies in Exception

Kerstin Klein (Homerton University Hospital)
Reproductive or Productive Value? Embryonic Life at the Intersection of IVF and Stem Cell Research in China

Panel 4: Reproduction and childbirth

Tina Phillips Johnson (Saint Vincent College)
Imagining childbirth in republican China

Bridie Andrews (Bentley University)
Birth control in China before the “One Child Policy”

Wei Wei Cao (Keele University)
Abortion Law, “One Child Policy” and Women’s Reproductive Autonomy in Post-Maoist China

Panel 5: Population and demography

Malcolm Thompson (University of Toronto)
The social costs of births and deaths: Economising reproduction in China, 1912-1937

Mary Brazelton (Yale University)
Eugenics, ethnic minorities and birth patterns in early communist China: Changing demographies of Yunnan, 1949-1958

Arunabh Ghosh (Columbia University)
Sripati Chandrasekhar (1918-2001) and China's "Population Problem"

Chairs and Discussants:

• Francesca Bray (University of Edinburgh)
• Lily Chang (History / Magdalene College, Cambridge)
• Harriet Evans (University of Westminster)
• Helen Schneider  (University of Oxford / Virginia Tech)
• Simon Szreter (University of Cambridge)
  
   

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