My research explores China’s early intervention industry, the autism and neurodiversity movement, the sexuality and reproduction of 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 autism diagnosis and intervention, and AI ethics. More broadly, I’m also interested in the biopolitics of public health, human-animal relations, feminism, ethical and affective turns in anthropology, and decolonization of knowledge production.
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Academic Positions
Academic Positions
2025 - 2028
Masaryk University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
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
M.A. Renmin University, School of Social Research, 2015
B.A. Huazhong University of Science and Technology, School of Sociology, 2013
Selected Academic Publications
Selected Academic Publications
Peer-reviewed Articles
Forthcoming “Performing Ethnography: From Dissonance to Resonance in Teaching Anthropology in China,” coauthored with Xinyan Peng, Teaching Anthropology
Forthcoming “Engendering the Development of Autism Kangfu Industry in Urban China.” China Perspective
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): 455–68.
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: 1-16
2024 “From ‘Treating the Child’ to ‘Healing the Family’: Gendered Practices of Family Therapy with Families of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder” (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), Journal of Chinese Women’s Studies(妇女研究论丛), 2024(2):47-61,101.
2023 “Psy Fever/Psycho-Boom: The Mental Picture of a Transforming China”, Creative Arts in Education and Therapy, 9 (1): 1-12
2022 “The Texture, Method and Regime of Tying Knots” (结绳志的质地、方法和议程), Kui Ge Xue Kan(魁阁学刊), 2: 150-165
Book Review
2019 “Psychotherapy as a Form of Governance(心理治療與基層治理): Review on Yang Jie, Unknotting the Heart: Unemployment and Therapeutic Governance in China”, Twenty-First Century(二十一世纪), 24(9): 141-148.
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, Online.
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 “A Mother’s Self-blame: Luck, Affect, and Moral Tragedy”(母亲的自责：运气、情感与道德悲剧), Online Lectures, Junior Anthropology Forum in China, Lanzhou University.
2020.7 “Vulnerable Encounters: When Toileting Becomes Significant Matters at Autism Therapeutic Rehabs” (脆弱的相遇：当如厕成为自闭症康复机构里的重要之事), Online Book Forum of Good Field of Anthropology (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 (人类学研究方法工作坊), CUHK
2019.4 “The Road of Hope: When Autistic Children Go to School”(希望之路：当自闭儿去上学), Friday Seminar, Department of Anthropology (人类学系周五研讨会), CUHK
Selected Conference Presentations
Selected Conference Presentations
2024.11 “Anthropology and Neurodiversity: Mutual Inspirations”(人类学与神经多样性的相互启发), Supporting Social Inclusion for Autistic Individuals across Lifespan(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), 2024 Sun Yat-Sen University Autism Symposium.
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 “Pathology of Family: Anthropology of Family Therapy”(家的病理学:人类学视野下的家庭治疗), Forum on Everyday Life Studies (日常生活论坛), Renmin University, Beijing(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 “Intimacy and Violence: Moral Expectation and Perils in the Practice of Familial Care for People with Intellectual Disability”(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 Roundtable on “Anthropology and Knowledge Production”(重启的世界：民族志与反思人类学学术工作坊, 知识人类学分论坛) Presenter, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou.
2023.3 “The Texture, Method and Regime of Tying Knots(结绳志的质地、方法与议程),” Sociological and Anthropological Implications of Nonfiction Writing(非虚构写作的社会学与人类学意涵工作坊), Yunnan University, Kunming.
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 Roundtable on “Anthropological Public Knowledge Production in Sinophonic Societies”(中文世界的人類學知識生產與公共人類學圓桌), Organizer and Presenter, Annual Conference of the Taiwan Society for Anthropology and Ethnology, Kaohsiung(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 “Mental Disability and Community Life,”(心智障碍与社区生活) China Disability and Sustainable Development Forum(第十五届中国残障与可持续发展论坛), Shenzhen.
2019.10 “Treating Children through Healing the Family: Pathology of Families Raising Children with Autism”(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), Workshop on Familial Ethics and Practice of Child Rearing under Social Transformation(转型时期的家庭伦理与儿童养育工作坊), Southeast University, Nanjing.
2019.9 “Intimate Relations and the Enterprise of Rehabilitation: Affective Practice in Family with Autistic Children in Urban China”(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), Annual Conference of the Taiwan Society for Anthropology and Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei(台灣人類學與民族學會年會-中研院).
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.
Teaching
Teaching
Teaching Assistant, Gender and Culture
Lecturer: Venera R. KHALIKOVA, CUHK, 2019 Spring
Teaching Assistant, Anthropology: the Study of Cultures
Lecturer: Teresa KUAN, CUHK, 2017- 2018
Teaching Assistant, Gender in Asia
Lecturer: Manynooch FAMING, CUHK, 2017 Spring
Teaching Assistant, Medicine, Health and Culture
Lecturer: Hsuan-Ying Huang, CUHK, 2016 Spring
Teaching Assistant, Chinese Culture and Society,
Lecturer: Hsuan-Ying HUANG, CUHK, 2016 Fall
Lecturer: Ann ANAGNOST, CUHK, 2016 Summer
Teaching Assistant, Anthropology: A Postgraduate Introduction
Lecturer: Teresa KUAN, CUHK, 2015 Fall
Teaching Assistant, Debates in Human Values,
Lecturer: Manynooch FAMING, CUHK, 2015
Language Skill
Language Skill
Mandarin Native
English Proficiency
Cantonese Conversational
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