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My research explores China’s early intervention industry, the autism and neurodiversity movement, the sexuality and reproduction of cognitively disabled people, hope and revolution within parenting and education, and the intersections of genetic technology and neo-kinship. Moving forward, I focus on human-robot interactions, affective computing in and beyond autism diagnosis and intervention, as well as emotional AI.
I’m also theoretically interested in the biopolitics of public health, human-animal relations, feminism, ethical and affective turns in anthropology, relational ontology, and decolonization of knowledge production.
Academic Positions
Academic Positions
2025 - 2028 Masaryk University, Faculty of Social Studies
Research Fellow of Interdisciplinary Project "Robots, Computing the Human, and Autism/ Cultural Imaginations of Autism Diagnosis and Emotion AI"
2022 - 2025 Yunnan University, School of Ethnology and Sociology
Postdoctoral Fellow
Education
Education
Ph.D. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Anthropology, 2021
Ph.D. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Anthropology, 2021
M.A. Renmin University, School of Social Research, 2015
M.A. Renmin University, School of Social Research, 2015
B.A. Huazhong University of Science and Technology, School of Sociology, 2013
B.A. Huazhong University of Science and Technology, School of Sociology, 2013
Research Projects
Research Projects
2025 - 2027 Reimagining Sociality and Personhood in China's Social Robot and Emotional AI Industry (funded by the Czech Science Foundation EXPRO grant, No. GX23-05692X)
2022 - 2025 Transformation of China' Early Intervention Sector for Developmental Disorders
2016 - 2021 Politics and Ethics of Care for Autistic Children in Urban China (funded by PhD studentship and PhD Support Scheme, Faculty of Arts, CUHK)
Academic Publications
Academic Publications
Peer-reviewed Articles
Peer-reviewed Articles
2025 “Engendering the Development of the Autism Kangfu Industry in Urban China”, China Perspectives, 141 | 2025, 9-19.
2025 “Performing Ethnography: From Dissonance to Resonance in Teaching Anthropology in China,” coauthored with Xinyan Peng, Teaching Anthropology 14(1):16-27
2024 “‘As Long as There’s a Glimmer of Hope, I’m Willing to Try’: The Moral Experiences of Parental Pursuit for Autism Therapy in Urban China.” Medical Anthropology 43 (5): 455–468.
2024 “Finding Wang Tonghui: The Life and After-life of a Pioneer Female Chinese Anthropologist”, coauthored with Jing Xu, Jing Wang & Wei Ye, Feminist Anthropology 5: 230–245
2024 从“治疗孩子”到“治疗家庭”: 家庭治疗在孤独症谱系家庭中的性别化实践, 妇女研究论丛, 2024(2):47-61,101. (人大复印资料 妇女研究 2024-04转载)
2023 “Psy Fever/Psycho-Boom: The Mental Picture of a Transforming China”, Creative Arts in Education and Therapy, 9 (1): 1-12
2022 结绳志的质地、方法和议程, (与王菁, 叶葳, 林子皓, 曾毓坤 合写)魁阁学刊, 2022(2): 150-165
Book Review
Book Review
2019 心理治療與基層治理: 评 Yang Jie, Unknotting the Heart: Unemployment and Therapeutic Governance in China”, 二十一世纪, 24(9): 141-148.
Peer-reviewed Online Article
Peer-reviewed Online Article
2024 “What Can White Paper Do?”, coauthored with Jing Wang and Wei Ye, Anthropology News.
Invited Talk
Invited Talk
2024.2 “Psycho boom/ psy-fever in urban China”, Psychotherapy and Training in Urban China: A Transformation of Mind and Society, International Association for Creative Arts in Education and Therapy
2023.3 人类学与照护, 生命伦理与疗愈实践课程系列讲座, 中央美术学院设计学院.
2021.5 母亲的自责：运气、情感与道德悲剧, 青年人类学线上讲座, 兰州大学.
2020.7 脆弱的相遇：當如廁成為自閉症康復機構里的重要之事, 好野读书会线上讲座.
2019.6 Care for the autistic children in urban China: How I did my fieldwork of special child rearing in Shenzhen”, Anthropology Methods Summer Workshop, CUHK
2019.4 希望之路：當自閉兒去上學, 香港中文大學人類學係Friday Seminar
Selected Conference Presentations
Selected Conference Presentations
2026.1 "(Un)bearable Waiting: Affective Precarity and the Economy of Potential in China's Early Autism Intervention", Imagining Possibilities of Affective Connection in the Era of Uncertainty, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou.
2025.10 "神经多样性运动的批判性回顾: 困境与反思", 神经多样性视域下的认知与方法转变, 中山大学第三附属医院, 广州.
2025.7 "Is It Possible to be an Independent Anthropologist in China?" SEAA-SNU 2025 Anthropology Conference, Seoul National University, Seoul.
2025.4 "Engaging and Expanding Public Dialogues on Disability and Care" Presenter, Between Disability Justice and Care Justice: An International Workshop, Uchicago Hong Kong Campus.
2024.11 “人类学与神经多样性的相互启发”, 多学科视角下的孤独症生命周期支持与社会融合学术论坛, 中山大学第三附属医院孤独症论坛.
2023.11 Roundtable on “Decolonizing Knowledge Production through Teaching Anthropology in Global North-South Encounters: China as Method,” Presenter and Panel Organizer, American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting. Toronto, Canada.
2023.10 “家的病理学: 人类学视野下的家庭治疗,” 日常生活论坛, 中国人民大学.
2023.10 “I Don’t Want to See Their Faces”: Cruel Optimism of the Early Intervention in Urban China,” Presenter and Panel Organizer, East Asian Anthropology Association Annual Meeting, Hong Kong.
2023.8 “親密與暴力: 心智障礙者家庭照護中的道德期許與困境," Workshop Series on Greater Bay Area Development and Human Rights: Person-centered and Community based Disability Services and Advocacy, Faculty of Law, HKU.
2023.6 知识人类学圆桌论坛, 重启的世界：民族志与反思人类学学术工作坊, 中山大学, 廣州.
2023.3 “结绳志的质地、方法与议程,” 非虚构写作的社会学与人类学意涵工作坊, 云南大学, 昆明.
2022.11 Roundtable on “China Anthropology in Precarity and Geopolitical Tensions: Knowledge Production & Public Engagement,” Presenter, American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting. Seattle.
2022.10 “Hoping agents, Booming Market, and Moral Perils of Autism Rehabilitation and Treatment in Contemporary China,” East Asian Anthropology Association Annual Meeting, Taipei.
2022.9 中文世界的人類學知識生產與公共人類學圓桌论坛, 台灣人類學與民族學會年會, 高雄.
2021.1 “Suspended Life and Vulnerable Care: Moral Perils of ‘Guan’ in Autistic Youths’ Life,” Anthropology Postgraduate Student Forum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
2020.11 "心智障碍与社区生活," 第十五届中国残障与可持续发展论坛, 深圳.
2019.10 "经营家庭，治疗孩子：当代中国城市自闭症家庭中的’家庭病理学’与情感实践," 转型时期的家庭伦理与儿童养育工作坊, 东南大学, 南京
2019.9 “親密關係與康復事業：當代中國城市自閉症家庭中的情感實踐," 台灣人類學與民族學會年會, 中央研究院, 台北.
2019.5 “Family as Rehab: Morality and affect in the practice of home-based rehabilitation in Chinese urban autistic families”, Moral Technologies: Expertise and the Self in China, South University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen.
2019.1 “From ‘Buduan’ to ‘Yangchang’: Personhood in the Making for Autistic Children in Mainland China”, Anthropology Postgraduate Student Forum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Translation
Translation
Book (Chapters)
Book (Chapters)
Forthcoming. 《道德实验室：家庭危机与迈向美好生活的斗争》Mattingly, Cheryl. 2016. Moral Laboratories: Family Perils and the Struggles for a Good Life. California University Press，华东师范大学出版社.
Forthcoming. 《焦虑者的世界：内在革命与心理治疗的政治》（与袁长庚合译）Zhang, Li. 2020. Anxious China. California University Press. 华东师范大学出版社.
2025. 麥高登. "回望我的人生與職涯". 《最後一課 II: 在斷裂時刻, 回望此身的記憶之書》,飛地工作室.
2023. “第五章 食物、饮食与美好生活（Food, Eating and Good Life）”，收录于冯珠娣（Judith Farqhuar）著，《身体与生命：冯珠娣论文集》, 上海人民出版社-世纪文景.
Public-Facing Articles
Public-Facing Articles
2025. 人类学能拯救世界吗？ Nancy Scheper-Hughes. 2016. Can Anthropology Save the World? in Perspectives: An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology. Edited by Nina Brown, Laura Tubelle de González, and Thomas McIlwraith. American Anthropological Association
2025. 别为我们哀悼 Jim Sinclair. 1999. Don't mourn for us. Autistic Rights Movement. UK.
2024. 拼布民族志宣言 Günel, Gökçe, Saiba Varma, and Chika Watanabe. 2020. A manifesto for patchwork ethnography. Member Voices, Fieldsights. Cultural Anthropology.
2024. 课堂何为? 教一门巴勒斯坦人类学. Maura Finkelstein. 2019. 5. What is a Classroom For? Teaching the Anthropology of Palestine. Cultural Anthropology.
2023. 嵌套的脆弱处境: 团结的限度与知识的未来. Sarah Bakker Kellogg. 2018. Nested Precarities: On the Limits of Solidarity and the Future of Knowledge. Cultural Anthropology.
Teaching Assistant
Teaching Assistant
Gender and Culture
Lecturer: Venera R. KHALIKOVA, CUHK, 2019 SpringAnthropology: the Study of Cultures
Lecturer: Teresa KUAN, CUHK, 2017- 2018Gender in Asia
Lecturer: Manynooch FAMING, CUHK, 2017 SpringMedicine, Health and Culture
Lecturer: Hsuan-Ying Huang, CUHK, 2016 SpringChinese Culture and Society,
Lecturer: Hsuan-Ying HUANG, CUHK, 2016 FallLecturer: Ann ANAGNOST, CUHK, 2016 SummerAnthropology: A Postgraduate Introduction
Lecturer: Teresa KUAN, CUHK, 2015 FallDebates in Human Values,
Lecturer: Manynooch FAMING, CUHK, 2015Professional and Social Services
Professional and Social Services
I have served as a referee for peer-reviewed journals, including:
Current Anthropology
Practicing Anthropology
Medical Anthropology
Current Anthropology
International Journal of Anthropology and Ethnology
Disability Studies Quarterly
Frontiers in Psychology
I also translated anthropological insights into practice through training sessions and conceptual workshops for NGOs, including:
Shenzhen Shouwang Association (深圳守望协会)
Beijing Hongyan Social Work Service Center (北京鸿雁社会工作服务中心)
Minority (少数派)
Yunnan Parallel (云南平行)
Language Skill
Language Skill
Mandarin Native
English Proficiency
Cantonese Conversational
Bahasa Indonesia beginner
Chinese Sign Language beginner
Čeština beginner
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