Sarah Mellors Rodriguez is an Assistant Professor of East Asian History at Missouri State University. She is the author of Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911–2021 (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Her work has been published in Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China, East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, and The PRC History Review

Reproductive Realities in Modern China: A Conversation with Sarah Mellors Rodriguez

While China’s reproductive policies have long been studied as a mechanism of biopolitical control, the everyday reproductive experiences of Chinese people are often eclipsed. Spanning more than a century, Sarah Mellors Rodriguez’s important monograph Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911–2021 (Cambridge University Press, 2023) fills this gap by examining how Chinese […]

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