Professional career

◎Professional Experiences
 Assistant Professor, Center for General Education, National Defense Medical Center (2009-present)
 Assistant Professor, Centre for General Education & Graduate Institute of Humanities in Medicine, Taipei Medical University (2007-2008)
 Member of Council of Anthropology of Reproduction
 Member of Women and Gender in Chinese Studies Network
 Member of the Society for Medical Anthropology of the American
◎Honors and Awards
✎ The developmental mode of Wang-Ye beliefs in Lukang, Tsing Hua University. Theses Award of the New Generation in Taiwan. (1994)
✎ Representing the everyday life histories of urban women documented in the removed registration system, Hsinchu (1906-1912). In Hsinchu Literature Award 1998. Hsinchu: Hsinchu Cultural Centre. (1998)
✎ Gender, Reproductive Health, and Development in a Kam village, Southwest China. Dissertation Scholarship awarded by Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation.(2004)

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◎Research Interests

Because of my concerns about health problems faced by disadvantaged groups, my research interests first come to focus on culture and health of indigenous groups and migrants, and further delve into how gender intersects with race, ethnicity, class, and nation, all of which influence health outcomes. While understanding health determinants from social and political constraints, I also pay attention to individual agency while they manage to deal their survival and well being.

◎Research Activities & Accomplishments

As a junior scholar and anthropologist from Taiwan, I have been conducting research on Kam people in China for years, with a special focus on the politics of reproduction among indigenous women. And I currently engage in research about health issues of female marriage migrants and migrant workers in Taiwan, including an analysis of their use of transnational medical care systems and discussing transcultural concepts, theories, research on care.


◎Selected Publications

1. On the sexuality and reproduction of the Kam people, Tai Culture v.19, pp.61-77, 2006.


2. The impact of gender and hierarchy on women’s reproductive health in a Kam village, Guizhou Province, China. Culture, Health and Sexuality 9(1):55-68, 2007 Jan-Feb.


3. Reproductive politics in Southwest China: deconstructing a minority male perspective on reproduction. In Marcia C. Inhorn, Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, Helene Goldberg, & Maruska La Cour Mosegaard (Eds.) Reconceiving the Second Sex in Reproduction: Men, Masculinity, and Reproduction. N.Y.: Berghahn Books, Chapter 7, 2009.