In early March, Dr Joy Zhang attended the ChinaRepro Tech Workshop organised by the Reproductive Sociology Research Group at Cambridge University.
The workshop kicked off with small group discussions on two manuscripts: Good Quality: The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China by Dr. Ayo Wahlberg and Infertile Futures: Producing and Reproducing the Chinese Environment by Dr. Janelle Lamoreaux. These two groundbreaking empirical studies offer socio-historical insights on the role bioscience plays in China’s imagination and (re)production of the future. The workshop also highlighted epistemological challenges in conducting and interpreting empirical studies on China’s life sciences. More conversation is on the way. This workshop was a first step toward future endeavours in the research of reproductive technologies in China.