Mingxuan Li is a fourth-year PhD researcher in Area Studies at the University of Oxford, UK. Her research interests include reproductive health, the dynamics of care, and the social life of therapeutics and illness. Her doctoral research explores pregnancy-related health care in China, with a specific focus on how care is delivered through the collaboration of medical institutions, families, and individuals. Building on this collaborative model, Mingxuan is also extending her research to chronic disease and varied healthcare contexts.
Chinese society has long been patriarchal, whereby men hold more privilege and power than women. Despite challenges and transformations over time, patriarchy has been a persistent and pervasive foundational organising principle of social and political life (Evans 2024). The ideological reinvention of neo-Confucianism as the moral standard in Xi Jinping’s China (Yan 2021) has further […]
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