Yun Zhou is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. Intersecting the studies of population and politics, her current project investigates the demographic, political, and gendered consequences of China’s reproductive governance.

The Individuals in the Numbers: Reproductive Autonomy in the Shadow of Population Planning in China and India

It was never quite her decision. ‘I wasn’t ready to be a mother, but it was impossible not to,’ Hui (a pseudonym) said during our interview in 2016, not long after China’s decades-long One-Child Policy ended. Her husband had made it clear to her that the ‘DINK’ (Double Income, No Kids) life—which Hui had long […]

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