BICC Position

Postdoctoral Fellow in Contemporary Chinese Culture and Society

Home Institution Details

Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Manchester

Contact Information

anna.lora-wainwright@manchester.ac.uk

Courses Taught

Topics in the Anthropology of China

Current Projects

Completion of monograph on experiences of cancer in China; ongoing research on the grassroots reception of rural healthcare cooperatives; interdisciplinary research on environment and health in China with Prof. Jane Duckett and Dr. Jimin Zhao, in collaboration with the Centre for Assistance to Pollution Victims in China (large grant proposal submitted to the ESRC in April 2008).

Recent Publications

Monograph:
Fighting for Breath: Cancer, Healing and Social Change in a Sichuan Village (being completed)

 Journal articles
Forthcoming (2009) "An anthropology of cancer villages: villagers' perspectives and the politics of responsibility", commissioned by the United States Social Science Research Council for the China Environment and Health Initiative, Special Issue of Journal of Contemporary China

2009 'Of farming chemicals and cancer deaths: the politics of health in contemporary rural China', in Social Anthropology 17(1): 56-73. Available at www.blackwell-synergy.com

2007 "Social and cultural understandings of oesophagus and stomach cancer in rural Sichuan", Asian and African Studies XII: 1 (Special Issue: Selected Papers from The XVI Biennial Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies), published by the Department of Asian and African Studies, University of Ljubljana

2005 "Valorising local resources: barefoot doctors and bone manipulation in rural Langzhong, Sichuan province, PRC", in Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity 1:2 Leiden: Brill

2005 "Medical Behaviour of Farmers in China ? the case of Qianfeng village" (zhongguo nongmin zhiliao xingwei yanjiu yi Sichuan sheng Langzhong shi Jiangnan zhen Qianfeng cun weili) in Medicine and Society 18(3): 1-3 Wuhan huazhong keji daxue tongji yixueyuan yixue yu shehui bian ji bu (In Chinese, with Yu, Pengjie)

Book chapters
Forthcoming (2008) "Fatness and Wellbeing: bodies and the generation gap in Contemporary China", in "The Body in Asia" edited by Yangwen Zheng and Bryan Turner, Oxford: Berghahn Books Official Reports

Reports
2008 "A Village Perspective of Rural Healthcare in China", in China Environment Forum, http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1421&fuseaction=topics.item&news_id=359247
BICC outputs

September 2009 convenor (with Dr. Patrizia Bassini, Oxford) of panel "Caring homes: Home-based Health Care in Contemporary China", at the International Congress of Traditional Asian Medicine, held in Bhutan. Panel keynote speaker Judith Farquhar, Max Palevsky Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago. Other speakers: Nancy Chen and Matthew Kohrman .